shipbuilder

The Open-source self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service written in Go

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What it is

The Open-source self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service written in Go

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This looks incredibly useful! In the repo (github.com/sendhub/shipbuilder) I see that it is written in go-lang -- which is quickly becoming my favorite programming language. It…

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Aug 5	2013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC	5	1	4
Aug 12	2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 19	2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Aug 26	2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC	4	1	3
Sep 2	2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 9	2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Sep 16	2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 23	2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 30	2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2

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jaytaylor·Aug 9, 2013

Perhaps ShipBuilder is right up your alley. ShipBuilder is an open-source Heroku-esque PaaS which uses Go, Git, LXC, and HAProxy, with Docker support coming soon! The Shipbuilder codebase is super easy to understand, and aims to make it fast and easy to deploy arbitrary web-applications. Get total control over all aspects of your staging and production environments. More info: http://shipbuilder.io/ https://github.com/sendhub/shipbuilder

In Getting to Docker 1.0

jaytaylor·Aug 8, 2013

When we first began creating ShipBuilder several months ago, Docker was too unstable to develop against. We then looked at using bare LXC instead and realized it was very straightforward (basically as simple as: lxc-clone, lxc-start, lxc-stop, and lxc-destroy). In fact, most of the LXC functionality is encapsulated in this 50-line file: https://github.com/Sendhub/shipbuilder/blob/master/src/execu... I am certainly open to the possibility of adding docker compatibility, especially in the form of a pull-request ;)

In ShipBuilder - Open Source PaaS written in Go

kstaken·Aug 8, 2013Submission

ShipBuilder - Open Source PaaS written in Go

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consciousness·Aug 8, 2013Recommendation phrase

This looks incredibly useful! In the repo (github.com/sendhub/shipbuilder) I see that it is written in go-lang -- which is quickly becoming my favorite programming language. It also uses HAProxy, which I've used many times in the past and it is easily the most powerful software load-balancer in existence. What a potent combination of technology...will definitely be keeping an eye or two on this!

In ShipBuilder: Go make your deployments smooth sailing

jaytaylor·Aug 6, 2013

shameless plug: Open-source Heroku-esque PaaS which uses Go, Git, LXC, and HAProxy. ShipBuilder is a freely available open-source project which aims to make it fast and easy to deploy arbitrary web-applications. Get total control over all aspects of your staging and production environments. More info: http://shipbuilder.io/ https://github.com/sendhub/shipbuilder

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