I think this is great, with one request: I would love to be able to use the same dotcloud toolchain to deploy to a local VM (or, container, I guess.)
Something like `dotcloud local push`. This way I don't have to mess with chef/vagrant/etc for my staging environments: I can simply use my dotcloud configurations for both local and production deployments.
It would be sad if I had to create one deployment system for testing environments, and something entirely different for production - because by the time I set things up for tests, I might as well use that same tool chain for prod!
I don't mind that the free tier is going away - because for me, it has been less about the "free" and more about the "easy to throw a stack together".
That's a really good point. If it were really, super painless to set up a local Dotcloud "Sandbox", it would alleviate a lot of the pain of the loss of the free Sandbox. But it's gotta be as easy as it used to be. For me, this means that there should be a zero-config Homebrew package for Mac and a zero-config Apt package for Debian/Ubuntu.
If this existed, it would be really easy to convert self-hosting customers to the paid service for scalability and support, and maybe some of the Dashboard tools. But considering this could be months away, I really wish the Sandbox were sticking around for a while...
Yeah, that is absolutely the goal. Docker was the first step in that direction, and now that we have an awesome community building on top of it, I hope that `dotcloud local push` will soon be a reality :)
I'd love to talk about it some more - just drop by #docker@freenode anytime.
Something like `dotcloud local push`. This way I don't have to mess with chef/vagrant/etc for my staging environments: I can simply use my dotcloud configurations for both local and production deployments.
It would be sad if I had to create one deployment system for testing environments, and something entirely different for production - because by the time I set things up for tests, I might as well use that same tool chain for prod!
I don't mind that the free tier is going away - because for me, it has been less about the "free" and more about the "easy to throw a stack together".
Exciting times!