StackDock
Infrastructure
docker hosting
SHOW HN2013
387points
132comments
#18of 1,739 in 2013
Top 2%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
15 positive, 30 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 17 critical, out of 67 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Design: 2 for, 8 againstExecution: 2 for, 8 againstIdea: 4 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple, easy-to-understand pricing
From 1 comment
"Docker-as-a-Service", simple, easy-to-understand pricing. Love it. This is my favourite Docker offer so far. I've been looking for something to replace dotCloud's deprecated…
kmfrk on HN
Quick to set up a machine with redis and node
From 1 comment
This is truly awesome, nice work! I configured and launched a machine with redis and node in less than 5 minutes. Very cool. How will you isolate instances from each other? My…
panarky on HN
Objections
Confusing custom terminology (Deck, Drop) instead of standard Docker terms
From 4 comments
I love the fact that you keep trying to define your own vocubulary 'Deck' etc, but always have to explain it. Best to stick with the more eaily understood term, rather than…
Angostura on HNI think that even if [deck drop instance] is clearer than [dockerfile image container] it would be better to use [dockerfile image container] it's the standard set forth from…
htilford on HNI'd have to agree that the standard Docker terminology would be much preferred. Your business covers what is a pretty cutting edge, advanced concept right now. Your customers are…
gtaylor on HNI'm in a similar problem space to you. After a year of defining my own 'simpler' terminology, decided to abandon it in favour of being consistent with the more popular albeit…
nailer on HN
Hosted on Hetzner, a budget provider, raising reliability concerns
From 1 comment
Hmm StackDock.com is hosted on a server at Hetzner in Germany. I don't 100% know if the containers themselves are hosted by Hetzner or not, but Hetzner is more of a budget…
Matsta on HN
Container isolation and kernel security concerns
From 2 comments
Great initiative! One thing to be aware is that Docker is using LXC for containers and LXC relies on kernel isolation and cgroup limits. The concern is about the vulnerabilities.…
AhtiK on HNThe issue with linux containers is (or at least it used to be) that it is possible for a malicious user to 'break out' of the container. Has this problem been solved?
MilesTeg on HN
Site outage during HN traffic spike
From 2 comments
Just signed up but the site now appears to be down, receiving "We're sorry, but something went wrong."
j-b on HNHackernews traffic spike! You can signup and create a Dockerfile - we've just paused instance deployment for a couple of hours as we add more servers. Sorry for the inconvenience.
edbyrne on HN
Requests
Hourly or usage-based billing
From 2 comments
Like the idea, but would like to see hourly billing.
gregf on HNThanks for the suggestion - we are looking at more usage based billing - including per CPU cycle / RAM usage to be a 'true' utility.
edbyrne on HN
Git deployment and a command line tool or API
From 3 comments
Looks cool. Here's what I'd love to see: built-in git deployment (ie. take a Dockerfile, build an image from it, and then after a push add the latest source code to /app and…
nfm on HNVery cool, and I was waiting for something like this to be built out. Are you planning on having a command line tool to control your deployments?
dylanz on HNThis is pretty awesome. An api to automate deployments/management/monitoring would completely rock too.
jaegerpicker on HN
Support for prebuilt container images
From 2 comments
The big point of Docker for me is that I can build the container on my machine, run automated tests on it, play with it and then ship it to the production machines when I'm…
esamatti on HNCan I use a docker image I have already created?
shtylman on HN
Questions
Where are the servers hosted
From 2 comments
where are the servers hosted? AWS? US or EU?
jongleberry on HNThis is fantastic! Does anyone know where DO servers are located?
cvburgess on HN
How containers communicate and private networking
From 2 comments
One thing that confuses me with Docker is that how do you configure your containers to communicate with each other. So say I have a fancy Django image, and a fancy Postgres…
antihero on HNHow is private networking handled between Docker containers? UPDATE: I'd also be interested to hear about Digital Ocean-style "shared" (but non-private) networking—basically, any…
erichocean on HN
Whether containers can run multiple per instance
From 1 comment
I like the idea. Really cool. I've been researching docker a lot lately, and did most of my recent development on Core OS. I do have a question that wasn't immediately obvious:…
terhechte on HN
Alternatives named
Orchard
From 2 comments
We're doing a similar thing called Orchard: https://orchardup.com We give you a standard Docker instance in the cloud - all the tools work exactly the same as they do locally.…
bfirsh on HNHi everyone, Docker maintainer here. Here's my list of docker hosting services. Please correct me if I forgot one! I expect this list to get much, much longer in the next couple…
shykes on HN
DigitalOcean
From 2 comments
Hi everyone, Docker maintainer here. Here's my list of docker hosting services. Please correct me if I forgot one! I expect this list to get much, much longer in the next couple…
shykes on HNSounds like you took the best parts of digital ocean and are trying to push it as a platform with docker baked in. I like. It seems like you're also trying to simplify using…
_lex on HN
Heroku
From 2 comments
Heroku created almost as many new terms as Tolkien, and they seem to have made out just fine.
peteforde on HNOne thing that confuses me with Docker is that how do you configure your containers to communicate with each other. So say I have a fancy Django image, and a fancy Postgres…
antihero on HN
Engine Dock, CTL-C, Stackmachine
From 3 comments
http://www.enginedock.com/
jrmcauliffe on HNAppFog's CTL-C: http://ctl-c.io/
dsissitka on HNI found this one a couple weeks ago! https://stackmachine.com/
bacongobbler on HN