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TorbFoundry
torb
Rust2023–2023
TorbFoundry / torb

torb

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0122023-03-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 132023-03-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsMar 272023-04-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-04-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-04-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsApr 17

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I'm not sure this qualifies as small since I've been working on it since last summer and has grown to over a few thousand lines of code, but it is definitely automation and something I'm quite proud of. https://github.com/TorbFoundry/torb "Torb is a tool for quickly setting up best practice development infrastructure on Kubernetes along with development stacks that have reasonably sane defaults. Instead of taking a couple hours to get a project started and then a week to get your infrastructure correct, do all of that in a couple minutes." My ambition is to fill the space of Heroku and right now I can get something like a React App and a Flask API or a full Elixir Phoenix project started and running in less than 5 minutes on Kube, with a full infrastructure as code environment, reproducibility and more. It's definitely not meeting my ambi
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tion yet, but it's definitely in a place where I think people can use it and get a lot of value from it. I've been testing it with some friends over a few months and have been dog fooding it on my other projects. I just finished adding a file system watcher to it over the last few days so you can iterate and changes will quickly be reflected onto your cluster. Next I'm going to extract this out into a library from the CLI tool, build an API over it and offer a hosted solution and a web app. I've been meaning to share it with people but I've been heads down building for maybe a little longer than I should have been.
In Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?

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