DeployBot
Infrastructure
deployment automation
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
6 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Great engineering and reliable deploys
From 3 comments
I have used deploybot for over a year, great engineering. My favourite deploy tool
vs2 on HNHappy user of DeployBot here. Does exactly what it's advertised it does.
riffic on HNWe[1] use DeployBot every day and we can't endorse them enough! The combination of DeployBot, Github and AWS Elastic Beanstalk is awesome and is the closest thing to having…
schappim on HN
Saves time managing deploys
From 1 comment
Migrated a complex Jenkins setup to Deploybot in 2015, saves our company a ton of time managing deploys. I'd highly recommend deploybot to anyone. If I could critique even just…
obisw4n on HN
Objections
Pricing too high for personal use
From 1 comment
Migrated a complex Jenkins setup to Deploybot in 2015, saves our company a ton of time managing deploys. I'd highly recommend deploybot to anyone. If I could critique even just…
obisw4n on HN
No free tier
From 1 comment
Seems like a pretty neat service. To save others some time, they don't have a free tier, you can't host it yourself, and they use Docker for builds before deployments:…
avtar on HN
Does not scale well to complex stacks
From 1 comment
The problem with generic deployment services like this is that they don't account for scalability. Different stacks have different requirements. I built my own deployment service…
jondubois on HN
Requests
A cheaper personal developer tier
From 1 comment
Migrated a complex Jenkins setup to Deploybot in 2015, saves our company a ton of time managing deploys. I'd highly recommend deploybot to anyone. If I could critique even just…
obisw4n on HN
A pricing page
From 1 comment
Suggestion to all companies: please have a /pricing/ page.
captn3m0 on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Laravel Forge?
From 1 comment
How does this compare to something like Laravel Forge[0]? Is it just that Forge focuses on PHP? [0] https://forge.laravel.com
jszymborski on HN
Are there open-source alternatives?
From 1 comment
Any suggestions on similar open-source tools?
sandstrom on HN
Alternatives named
Laravel Forge
From 2 comments
How does this compare to something like Laravel Forge[0]? Is it just that Forge focuses on PHP? [0] https://forge.laravel.com
jszymborski on HNThe problem with generic deployment services like this is that they don't account for scalability. Different stacks have different requirements. I built my own deployment service…
jondubois on HN
Git pull requests with CI
From 1 comment
There's a number of startups doing some variation of this. What many don't seem aware of is that plain pull requests, in combination with CI, entirely kill the need for a deploy…
vemv on HN
Ansible
From 1 comment
Definitely take a look onto Ansible[1]. We are using it on daily basis and to deploy and provision servers. Deployment from CI was just 4 lines into CI config (fetch repo, set-up…
twista on HN
Octopus Deploy
From 1 comment
I use a very similar system to this one, but instead of building from environment-specific branches, we branch from a release branch. We use a similar git flow system, but we…
EnderMB on HN