Beehive

Infrastructure

self-hosted automation

SHOW HN2017

247points
44comments
#107of 2,242 in 2017
Top 5%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.

Execution: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Lighter and easier to deploy than Huginn

    From 1 comment
    • huginn is a great project, by all means keep using it! The need for Beehive originally stemmed from our local hacker space, where we wanted to run a little daemon for…
      mueslix on HN
  • Open source is appreciated

    From 1 comment
    • This looks amazing. Thank you for making it available as open source -- I can see how a vibrant community could ensure quality and up to date modules.
      andrei_says_ on HN

Objections

  • Does not work on Windows out of the box due to dependencies

    From 3 comments
    • Documentation doesn't mention it, but this appears to not work on Windows - at least not out of the box. Annoying to go to the trouble of downloading it to try, to discover it…
      aryehof on HN
    • This actually seems to be a problem with certain test fixtures in one of the dependencies: (github.com/ChimeraCoder/anaconda) . The offending files are:…
      Intermernet on HN
    • EDIT: There are some more issues! It uses github.com/guelfey/go.dbus which as far as I can tell will never really work on Windows.
      Intermernet on HN

Requests

  • Enable or disable bees at build time

    From 1 comment
    • The dbus-bee obviously won't run on Windows, but it's not a hard dependency of Beehive. You can simple comment out the import of any Bee in beehive.go. There's a discussion to be…
      mueslix on HN

Questions

  • Difference between Beehive and Huginn

    From 1 comment
    • I have been using huginn for more than one year and I am very satisfied. What's the difference between huginn and beehive?
      roylez on HN
  • Are there other open source event and agent tools

    From 1 comment
    • "Shortly" we had that topic here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441913 But most of the stuff is not alive anymore... But there are some interesting new ones:…
      lop on HN

Alternatives named

  • Huginn

    From 2 comments
    • "Shortly" we had that topic here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441913 But most of the stuff is not alive anymore... But there are some interesting new ones:…
      lop on HN
    • I have been using huginn for more than one year and I am very satisfied. What's the difference between huginn and beehive?
      roylez on HN
  • Node-RED

    From 2 comments
    • Node-RED seems similar and looks like it has a nicer interface (I've not tried it though).
      IshKebab on HN
    • Maybe you could get some inspiration from http://nodered.org. It's pretty generic despite the IoT mention.
      kawera on HN
  • Factor.io

    From 1 comment
    • There is/was Factor.io, but I'm not sure its still active.
      stephenr on HN
  • AWS Step Functions

    From 1 comment
    • would love to use it. the only people i know who has something similar are - treeline.io which is backed by sailsjs. - aws step functions. Used to coordinate lambda functions.…
      thawab on HN

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