Flynn, a next generation open source PaaS

Presentation i gave at the docker meetup in Melbourne, Australia.

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1. Flynn A next generation open source PaaS
2. What is Flynn? Set of components which out-of-the-box provides a starting point for an internal PaaS Collection of independent projects, some of which are useful outside of Flynn Inspired by the Google Omega Paper
3. What problem is this solving? Provides a container based platform for services (Heroku) Push deploy DB as a service (PostgreSQL) Designed for 12 factor applications
4. What business problem is this solving? Deployment, let the developers ship with less road blocks. Logging, collect store/process/relay Monitoring, provides consistent view to developers and operations Efficient utilisation of system resources, Parkinson's law..
5. History Based on Jeff Lindsays Dokku Inspired by Heroku Open source’ish Development sponsored by a few large companies
6. The Stack Written in golang Components: Service Discovery (etcd under the hood) Job Execution Slug building (docker file templates) Custom HTTP/TCP load balancer/proxy
7. Langauge Support Ruby NodeJS Java Python
8. Example Deployment
9. Current State Still in heavy development Lots of rough edges Scaling across hosts is not configurable Not fault tolerant
10. Looking ahead Well thought out architecture Lots of reusable pieces Hopefully usable for development soon!
11. Alternatives deis http://deis.io/ next on my list to review! kubernetes https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/ kubernetes ???
12. Questions? Mark Wolfe mark@wolfe.id.au @wolfeidau on twitter github.com/wolfeidau http://wolfe.id.au