Ask HN: What cloud automation platform do developers prefer?

4 points by morpheyesh 9 years ago | 11 comments

There are quite a few automation platforms which help you deploy application on the cloud and test it real-time. Services like containership, elasticbox has got plethora of language/framework support and a good market place. But I am yet to find a good git based deployment system.

I do use containers to quickly setup services, but I still don't see a great git based deployment tool that I can quickly use to test my application during development.

Is there any good platform out there?

Would you mind paying $15 or so for such a platform which provides single click git based deployment on AWS or DO and supports all languages/framework and services?

Your thoughts?

onion2k 9 years ago |

I use Codeship to take code from BitBucket, test it, and push it to a host when something is merged in. I'm very happy with it. (The only annoying thing is that I need to whitelist the entire IP range of AWS's East Coast region on anything that my deployments do that requires IP based security.)

morpheyesh 9 years ago | |

Dont you think CodeShip is a bit expensive? Also, I am keen on platform that works well with teams.

moritzplassnig 9 years ago | | |

Codeship founder here, would love to get more feedback. What's your use case / team size? What price would be right?

nibs 9 years ago |

I am not sure I completely understand what this would look like from the description, but I have git-based deployment using Heroku. Features are developed in off-master branches, and then when you push to master, Heroku compiles from that and runs it in production. I like it.

morpheyesh 9 years ago | |

yes, heroku is good. But I am talking about using my own cloud providers. Like DO or AWS.

badri 9 years ago | | |

You can try Convox. Seems to have all the stuff offered by Heroku, plus you can deploy in your own AWS servers.

badri 9 years ago |

Platform.sh is good, but it does not let you use your own servers for deployment.

morpheyesh 9 years ago | |

I guess its only for php applications. Right?