Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers

Re:Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers by themgt on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @12:24PM (#5214319)

Can you give a technical explanation of how this actually works? Heroku works by compiling your git repository with a buildpack into a "slug" and then booting that slug on a cookie-cutter LXC image running on an EC2 VM, according to process types you defined in your Procfile and the scaling you set through heroku's API, and then routing web traffic to your web processes. etc etc.

Can you explain with some technical depth how you are actually deploying/configuring the app, what languages/libraries are supported, where/how DBs & external services are run/connected to, how web traffic gets routed/proxied to the apps, etc?

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Re:Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers by lvangool on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @12:34PM (#5214379)

Thanks for the question - there is a little more detail here: https://www.cloud66.com/help/cloud66_stack

Happy to answer specific questions

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Re:Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers by calgaryeng on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @07:24PM (#5216731)

How does the nginx fit in? Do you install an instance of nginx onto every single box? Or can you elect to use a web server box as your frontend nginx and proxy request back to a set of separate servers running instances of passenger?

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Re:Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers by ksajadi on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @09:11PM (#5217206)

At the moment nginx sits on every frontend box serving Passenger. Unicorn support is coming soon. Split of front end proxy and backend server is further down the line. Feel free to put it down in the Feedback panel on the site and vote it up! Thanks.

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