hey, Luke here :)

if anyone is interested in trying out Flocker we have a really cool new online tutorial system where you can have root on a 3-node flocker cluster for 3 hours to kick the tyres for free.

there are 200 VMs lined up so hey hacker news here's a challenge, see if you can use them all up :D

https://clusterhq.com/flocker/try-flocker/

cheers, Luke

The demo is great. Thank you for putting in the effort to make that possible.

Do you support Google Cloud Platform persistent disks?

Not yet but Flocker itself has a plugin mechanism for block device backends so it should be fairly easy to do so: https://docs.clusterhq.com/en/1.0.0/gettinginvolved/plugins....

What's your use case for this @crb? Do you run production container workloads on Google Cloud Platform? Which databases are you interested in?

I'm on the Google Cloud Platform team; I do have customers with production container workloads and want to see a wide range of open-source options to offer them.

Not yet, but we have a system of pluggable storage options so the community (or us eventually) can write one for Google Compute. https://docs.clusterhq.com/en/1.0.0/gettinginvolved/plugins....

Any actually free, open source system that I can deploy on my Docker box?

Flocker is fully free and open source under the Apache 2 licence and you can run it on Ubuntu or CentOS -- what OS would you like to see?

just using ubuntu, where's the tutorial for that? thanks. i guess that would be a minor qualm, that the information to deploy this on your own box is not easily visible on the site. that if you want to get lots of developers on board, this is something that would be nice and useful.

Here you go: https://docs.clusterhq.com/en/1.0.0/using/installing/index.h...

thx.