I've been impressed with what the Flynn team has gotten done since my time with them at Y Combinator. The cloud hosting and containerization open source world has gotten a lot more complicated and powerful.
What is super interesting about Flynn is that they've captured exactly what made Heroku phenomenally great and made it as simple to run on your own servers. This is a refreshing take that is now battle hardened. It's exactly what the DevOps world needs since all the complexity also makes it that much harder for people to get started and get off the ground.
It will be nice to put the information about the license in the footer or some place visible. It says "open source" everywhere, but can't find the license?
@overworkedasian Dokku is a really good example of what you can build quickly with a small amount of code when you limit your scope. Flynn is totally compatible with apps that run on Dokku, so if you want to scale past one server, Flynn is a great fit.
https://flynn.io/blog/upgrading-...
@_pascalandy Probably! Flynn is a solution that "just works" out of the box, so you can push app repos and Docker images and have them be deployed in a highly available configuration with databases and load balancing, easy rollbacks, log aggregation, and a bunch of other features without doing any work.
If you're just using vanilla Docker, getting to the point where you can do all that tends to be a lot of work and then you have to maintain it once you get everything working. With Flynn, we've already taken care of building the platform, and you can focus on building your apps instead of wrangling infrastructure.
Are there any video walkthroughs on how to install and use it? I am highly interested in using this. Even though I am someone who has worked in DevOps, I find it hard to understand the docs.
@istereotype There are four overview videos, one on each of the main pages (Home, Apps, Manage, Databases) but they are not quite tutorials. Is there anything specific that you'd like us to explain better in the docs or make videos about?
@titanous Surely, I think a video walkthrough on how to install flynn and then one on how to use it would be great. Even though i have already reached a certain point. These days video walkthroughs help a lot more.
But everything aside, this looks super cool. I am sure a lot of devs like myself would highly appreciate what you guys have built. Having our own heroku itself kind of makes me feel like 😎
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@titanous I agree with @istereotype. :) I hope you can release some walkthrough video soon. Basic guide in installing & deploying apps.
@menjxo@istereotype Thanks for the feedback! We'll make some more videos. In the mean time check out the four videos that are on the site now as they provide overviews of usage, installation, apps, and databases.
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@titanous a'right :) currently checking on it! Thanks!
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I noticed in your docs you don't recommend using MySQL in production if the app has or will have a lot of data. Do you have a time frame for full confidence in this feature?
@karlmonson Most of our time on databases up to this point has been spent on getting the safe, automatic failover right, which we're now confident that we've solved.
Our database appliances currently lack the ability to tune parameters to handle production workloads and require some optimization around the movement of data volumes to handle larger amounts of data. Implementing these features is our primary focus right now and we expect them to be ready for demanding production use cases within the next few months.
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@titanous@karlmonson This rocks! Everyone know how crazy it can be to optimize DB. Love your spirit!
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