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by derfabianpeter
2085 days ago
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Hey, author of apollo here. Unfortunately I've never used Dokku or Heroku myself, but from what I know of them, apollo is different in that it doesn't provide any platform services developers can consume (like DBs, Caches, S3, ...). apollo is explicitly made for production use which is why the focus is on operations and infrastructure and we leave the tooling in the hands of the developer (hence we support native docker-compose/docker stack deployments without custom logic). It's a very DevOps-y platform that can grow with your needs and supplies a good toolchain that helps with operations. Focus is clearly not on "abstracting as much as possible away from the end-user" but more on "trusting that the thing will work when it has to". Besides, apollo is a great platform to build upon that you can simply leave without reinventing the wheel. Since you don't need special manifests to deploy but build with standard "docker" components like stacks and services, you can deploy your stuff elsewhere in a minute and don't risk vendor-lock in. |
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For the time being I am probably not doing anything complex enough to warrant switching away from Dokku.
As a single-person operation, I have to keep a pretty fragile balance between effort-of-setup (I can deal with a bit more effort than Heroku) / control-over-setup (I need Dokku's finer-grained control, with more effort).
One day I may outgrow those requirements, however. Who knows. I will keep Apollo in mind for that :)