StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments

StackRocket launches beta to help developers build virtualized dev environments(stackrocket.com)

23 points by keven 14 years ago | 26 comments

thejash 14 years ago |

Yay! I've had this pain for years now, I'm glad someone is finally addressing it. You need a lot more features (the most important being a decent IDE or editor integration with either emacs or something) before I'll use it, but, I'll definitely keep an eye on the project.

sayhello 14 years ago | |

Thanks for the comments. What kind of IDE integration are you thinking about?

The editing portion is easily handled: since your code lives locally, you could be using any editor or IDE of your choosing.

Were you thinking about automated app restarts? What else?

throwaway123213 14 years ago |

How is it different from http://vagrantup.com/ -- Seems to have more features/support for chef/puppet?

sayhello 14 years ago | |

It is similar to vagrant, but stackrocket adds more features, such as a hosted component as well as supported software stacks.

keven 14 years ago |

Howdy HN users, right now we have Rails, Django and PHP stacks available. We'll be adding more stacks in coming weeks.

michaelbuckbee 14 years ago | |

It wasn't clear to me from the video, are those stacks preset or can I specify Rails 2.8, MySQL 5.2, and so on?

keven 14 years ago | | |

Right now stacks are set based on preference, compatibility to cloud providers, etc

schrieaj 14 years ago | |

I know it mentioned somewhere that custom stacks were an option but could not find any documentation.

keven 14 years ago | | |

We will enable custom stack soon!

dantheman 14 years ago | |

I'd love to see a Scala/Akka/Play 2.0 stack.

goo 14 years ago |

I don't see any information about how to run these stacks locally -- are they something I can run using virtualbox?

keven 14 years ago | |

Yes, once you installed virtualbox and our command line tool, stkr, a virtual machine will be downloaded automatically and a stack of your choice will be set up locally.

Visit getting started page https://www.stackrocket.com/docs/getting_started or ping me if you have more questions.

goo 14 years ago | | |

Ahh, thanks you!

siculars 14 years ago |

Which Clouds/Providers can you push a "stack" to? If I am using the correct terminology...

sayhello 14 years ago | |

For now: heroku and dotcloud

veb 14 years ago | | |

what about PHP Frog for the php/mysql stack?

Hominem 14 years ago |

Signed up then got to the getting started and saw it requires MacOS. Doh. Oh well.

sayhello 14 years ago | |

We are starting out with MacOS X only, but will add more hosts later. What are you running?

fionabunny 14 years ago | | |

I switch between Mac & PC... having both would be sweet.

PStamatiou 14 years ago |

Someone's squatting on our name (picplum) -- any way to relinquish?

keven 14 years ago | |

Looks to me that the name is not taken. Do you want to try again and ping me if you have any problems?

PStamatiou 14 years ago | | |

working now, thanks

pilom 14 years ago |

Any particular reason for Ubuntu 10.04 vs any other os?

sayhello 14 years ago | |

We needed a distro to start. It was due to familiarity, but it could be any other distro

tsmith 14 years ago |

Looks awesome, guys! Congratulations on the launch!

sayhello 14 years ago | |

Thank you!