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A day 0 tool for getting your app on k8s fast

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A day 0 tool for getting your app on k8s fast

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Microsoft bought one of my favorite pieces of cloud software from a few years ago Deis[1]. With that they also got Helm[2] with the purchase. They are doing GREAT with Helm and…

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012342017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2021

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

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wg0·Mar 1, 2021Submission

Ask HN: What Happened to Flynn.io? (and Others)

Many of the PaaS open source implementations whether built on top of k8s or otherwise turning up dead or getting lower and lower traction. Examples would be flynn.io, for example or draft (https://github.com/Azure/draft) seems also sort of dead. What gives? What's happening? Is there no place for PaaS anymore because there are too many already? Or k8s deployment and operation is that simplified to the point that with Helm, Tekton and Brigade etc - there's a general convergence on a DIY K8s and away from PaaS layers even if they're built atop K8s?
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yebyen·Jan 14, 2020
I think this is really hard, it's a bit like how we talk about learning Rails in the Ruby community. "Don't do it" Not because it's bad or especially hard, but because there's so much to unpack, and it's so tempting to unpack it all at once, and there's so much foundational stuff (Ruby language) which you really ought to learn before you try to analyze in detail exactly how the system is built up. I learned Kubernetes around v1.5 just before RBAC was enabled by default, and I resisted upgrading past 1.6 for a good long while (until about v1.12) because it was a feature I didn't need, and all the features after it appeared to be something else which I didn't need. I used Deis Workflow as my on-ramp to Kubernetes, and now I am a maintainer of the follow-on fork, which is a platform that made great sense to me, as I was a Deis v1 PaaS user
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before it was rewritten on top of Kubernetes. Since Deis left Workflow behind after they were acquired by Microsoft, I've been on Team Hephy, which is a group of volunteers that maintains the fork of Deis Workflow. This was my on-ramp, and it looks very much like it did in 2017, but now we are adding support for Kubernetes v1.16+ which has stabilized many of the main APIs. If you have a way to start a Kubernetes 1.15 or less cluster, I can recommend this as something to try[1]. The biggest hurdle of "how do I get my app online" is basically taken care of you. Then once you have an app running in a cluster, you can start to learn about the cluster, and practice understanding the different failure modes as well as how to proceed with development in your new life as a cluster admin. If you'd rather not take on the heavyweight burden of maintaining a Workflow cluster and all of its components right out of the gate (and who could blame you) I would recommend you try Draft[2], the lightweight successor created by Deis/Azure to try to fill the void left behind. Both solutions are based on a concept of buildpacks, though Hephy uses a combination of Dockerfile or Heroku Buildpacks and by comparison, Draft has its own notion of a "Draftpack" which is basically a minimalistic Dockerfile tailored for whatever language or framework you are developing with. I'm interested to hear if there are other responses, these are not really guides so much as "on-ramps" or training wheels, but I consider myself at least marginally competent, and this is how I got started myself. [1]: https://web.teamhephy.com [2]: https://github.com/azure/draft
In Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)
stuntkite·Jun 4, 2018Recommendation phrase
Microsoft bought one of my favorite pieces of cloud software from a few years ago Deis[1]. With that they also got Helm[2] with the purchase. They are doing GREAT with Helm and are going in a different direction that looks super cool as they mothball Deis called Draft[3]. They are moving away from the OS company they used to be and betting heavily on cloud technologies and I think this Github purchase makes sense. Github has been stagnate for years. MS is embracing open source in a way they haven't before, and I think they are doing so in a way that is going to surprise people. In NO way am I a Microsoft fan boy. I've been windows free going on a decade. I run Linux Mint and OSX as my primary desktop environments. Apple is burning me hard, the way the computing world is going to change in the next couple years, cluster technology is going
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to be at it's core and we are going to see some very different things grow out of it. I'm as shocked as anyone to see MS play nice with linux and especially contribute how they have to Kubernetes; which I think is the largest open source project in the world right now? What if MS dumped resources into world class CI tools to go with Github? What if they made a Github open source module and would let you federate your content? I could see this being a really interesting thing. They could also screw us all, but under their current management I think they are getting ready to be competitive in an emergent environment that can't exist without open source. [1] https://deis.com [2] https://docs.helm.sh/using_helm/ [3] https://github.com/Azure/draft
In Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
verst·May 24, 2018
I realize that Azure isn't as popular in the US startup crowd (and certainly not on HN), but you really cannot mention EKS without also mentioning AKS which is much more mature IMHO. And ACI (Azure Container Instances) is a serverless container offering that was launched before Fargate. Beyond the Azure offering, Microsoft has also shown tremendous commitment to the Kubernetes ecosystem at large. Take a look at the many Kubernetes open source tools created by Microsoft that work with Kubernetes anywhere (!!!): [1] Helm (initially created by Deis, acquired by Microsoft) [2] Virtual Kubelet [3] Draft [4] Brigade [5] VSCode: Kubernetes Tools And more... [1]: helm.sh [2]: https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet [3]: https://github.com/azure/draft [4]: https://github.com/azure/brigade [5]: https://github.com/Az
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ure/vscode-kubernetes-tools Disclaimer: I'm a developer advocate for Kubernetes / Linux at Azure (but a member of the community first and foremost). I've never run a Windows Container, and I don't have a single Windows VM in Azure ;) I encourage you to take a close look at the Azure offering. It's actually very awesome!
In Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GA

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