Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps

Re:Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source... by zwischenzug on Friday October 31, 2014 @11:58AM (#8539455)

Why not just use docker for this? Then you can install anywhere that has docker.

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Re:Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source... by timmorgan on Friday October 31, 2014 @12:01PM (#8539474)

This tool is built to interface with DigitalOcean's API so it can spin up the VM.

There is no universal API for Docker that would allow one to install "anywhere that has docker", at least as far as I know.

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Re:Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source... by Gigablah on Friday October 31, 2014 @12:17PM (#8539558)

Maybe not Docker itself, but this looks like a use case for CoreOS. In this case the "install button" would simply submit fleet unit file(s).

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Re:Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source... by timmorgan on Friday October 31, 2014 @12:20PM (#8539576)

Thanks for this comment -- reminds me I need to look into CoreOS some more.

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Re:Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source... by acron0 on Friday October 31, 2014 @12:18PM (#8539568)

This response annoys me a little bit. "Why not just use docker?" gets thrown around so much at the moment, as if Docker is the alpha and omega of app deployment. Is it just me? Docker's awesome. I love Docker. But it's not the Messiah of app deployment. Not that DO is, but that's not the point.

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Re:Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source... by Gigablah on Friday October 31, 2014 @12:21PM (#8539580)

You could treat a $5 DO instance as a big "container" in itself :)

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Re:Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source... by zwischenzug on Friday October 31, 2014 @01:13PM (#8539860)

That _is_ the point. Why tie yourself to one VPS provider?

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