Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by _0nac 2638 days ago
If you can't wait for their teaser of "In a future post, I’ll cover the migration process itself", the GCP site has a hands-on tutorial of migrating an app which may prove interesting:

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/migrating-ruby-on-rails-a...

Disclaimer: I work for GCP and wrote most of that :D

At the end of the day, Heroku and GKE are rather different beasts with different philosophies, so migrations are never going to be 1:1. I expect this to become simpler over time as tooling matures though, eg. using https://buildpacks.io to build Docker images instead of having to craft them by hand seems promising.

1 comments

I've been playing around with GCP, mostly app engine, the past couple weeks making a toy application to get a little more comfortable with building and designing serverless apps. Just wanted to say you, and whoever else, is writing those docs does an amazing job. Seriously, I've tried all 3 platforms, because of work and GCP is by far the easiest to become productive with and the main reason is the glorious documentation. Keep up the great work!
Great to hear about your experience with the docs and appreciate the call out. You can use the "Send Feedback" button on any of the doc pages to let us know about any feedback you have. Real people read it.
I'll keep that in mind!