Ask HN: Open source local equivalent for Heroku

[klemenk]

I'm searching for an opensource private cloud platform that you can host locally and can provide simplicity and flawlessness like Heroku. Has anyone faced the same problem in past?

[sheraz]

There is also Redhat's Openshift Origin, the Open-source, host-it-yourself version of their Openshift platform.

They've done a great job of documentation and on-boarding new people to try it out.

They have a nice set of ansible scripts or docker images which will get you up and running pretty quickly[1].

I currently run a lot of stuff in Azure, and there is a great deployment template to get your orgin cluster up and running here [2]

Underneath the hood it is just docker, kubernetes, and some other goodness. Color me super impressed with this.

Note, for something way, way, more simple I highly recomment Dokku [3]

[1] - https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible

[2] - https://github.com/derdanu/azure-openshift

[3] - https://github.com/dokku/dokku

[eicnix]

Openshift is moving from a PaaS system to a CaaS(Container as a Service) system.

It might not be the best solution if you want a PaaS but it is certainly a good CaaS platform.

[sheraz]

Are they really? If anything would they be expanding the scope to Also include more CaaS features.

It would also seem that their developer onbarding leads with all the push to deploy tutorials. And then cartridges.

[Gys]

Dokku is something I normally use. Running on the smallest Digital Ocean instance.

Another Docker-based solution I currently look at is https://deployit.io - because it wants to offer a very user friendly seamless integration of local, remote self-hosting and remote their-hosting. Open Source, on github.

[mindcrash]

You might want to check out Deis [0], which is supported and - as far as I know - used by Engine Yard. Also deployed at several other orgs including Mozilla.

[0] http://deis.io/

[BWStearns]

I've had a generally positive experience with deis but would recommend just using heroku unless you have the time to really get the deis setup right and keep it right. A system needs to be at least moderately complex before the time spent on deis starts paying dividends.

[retrack]

You also have http://rancher.com/ which makes it pretty easy and has deployment options on local hosts, bare metal or cloud providers (AWS, DO, Exoscale,...)

[ramsteinfan]

we've been using containership (https://github.com/containership/containership)

[dreamdu5t]

"cloud platform" and "host locally" are contradictory. Do you mean hosting on your own hardware, a server colocated in a data center, or hosted in the cloud such as EC2??

[mikegedelman]

I think OP means something you can host yourself on a cloud box like DigitalOcean

[klemenk]

I taught of something like private cloud for company, because it's really annoying to manage all deploys by connecting trough ssh etc. we already have gitlab with ci but i wanted a deploy environment, so i will probably use dokku.

[dawson]

Parse was recently made OS https://github.com/ParsePlatform

[tym0]

I quite like dokku, easy to setup and manage.

[austinjp]

Are all viable options based around Docker? Is there anything that uses plain LXC containers?

[dmmartins]

https://tsuru.io/

[_jezell_]

Kubernetes or Deis + Kubernetes if you really like the Heroku model.

[MpaKus]

take a look at Dokku - https://github.com/dokku/dokku maybe it's what you need

[joemcelroy]

dokku or dokku-alt (https://github.com/dokku-alt/dokku-alt)

[jeffmould]

I haven't used it personally, but do you mean something like OpenStack (http://www.openstack.org)?

[jeepj]

Openstack is a IaaS (infrastructure as a service, Heroku is a PaaS (platform as a service). The PaaS over openstack is openshift