Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Infra to AWS and GCP

Re:Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Inf... by narenkmano on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:29PM (#36481958)

Congrats on the launch! I've had to deploy python/java services on AWS ECS services (for blue-green deploys) multiple times over the last six months and it's always been a pain to setup it up. Especially in a startup where I want to move as fast as possible it's been a pain to set up manually.

Is that something that is easy to setup with Argonaut?

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Re:Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Inf... by suryao on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:43PM (#36482178)

This is central to what we do. I'd be happy to give you a demo. How it is done: (1) kubernetes and some essential tools for certificate and ingress management are setup. (2) connect github or gitlab repos and you get a push to deploy experience as the CI gets setup

I assume you are already containerized, so there is not much to be done. There is a one time setup of a kubernetes cluster (EKS) that aws takes about 25mins for.

This will give you a rolling zero down-time deploy out of the box along with a few other goodies. You can checkout a quick demo here (~4m) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DZsYXxA2tQ

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Re:Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Inf... by leoh on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:35PM (#36482059)

Are you using terraform?

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Re:Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Inf... by narenkmano on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:40PM (#36482144)

No, doing everything by hand in the console, which has been super annoying. But don't want to spend time setting up terraform right now.

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Re:Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Inf... by suryao on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:44PM (#36482195)

As an aside: argonaut sets everything up using terraform (everything is autogenerated from templates), though the tf code itself is not yet exposed to users. We're working on that functionality soon.

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Re:Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Inf... by earthling8118 on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:45PM (#36482209)

Well, that's likely the issue. You're spending more time avoiding doing it the way that will make everything go more smoothly

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Re:Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Inf... by icedchai on Monday June 26, 2023 @05:50PM (#36486348)

You're going to waste more time setting things up by hand. It's also error prone, and when you have to replicate things across environments (dev, test, prod, at a minimum), you'll spend a ton of time figuring out what you missed.

The console is really only meant for prototyping. AWS should really emphasize this more.

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Re:Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Inf... by VincentEvans on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:11PM (#36487072)

How does one convert a prototype generated by clicking around in the console - into terraform code? Is there a best practice approach?

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Re:Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Inf... by vgeek on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:57PM (#36487438)

Check out Former2.

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Re:Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Inf... by Hikikomori on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:36AM (#36490380)

Terraform 1.5 got a new import feature.

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-1-5-brings-config-d...

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