Totally nit-picking here, but not a fan of the name and especially domain name `ctl-c`.
Where are containers physically hosted on (Amazon)? How do you allocate resources to containers? I assume that containers can talk to other containers even though they may reside on different VMs.
You will be able to pick where to host your containers and they can talk to each other even if they are on different VMs, there will be an API with SDKs that will make app level topology layouts available to all containers and VMs
Last time i tried openstack exactly for this reason (2-3 months ago) it was a nightmare to get _something_ to work with openstack + lxc. Nearly undocumented :(
For some reason this is buried at the very bottom in low-contrast text:
CTL-C is the brain-child from the makers
of AppFog.
AppFog is now part of a $19.8B company
which means we have the resources to
back this in a big way. :)
I'm still waiting to see when that Century Link acquisition is going to have any effect on Appfog. Hell, they still do not support node 0.10.x and 0.10 stable was released six months ago. I actually have the same issue with Azure websites, the newest version they support is 0.8.x, while Heroku has up to 0.10.15
Since this is Docker-based, it sounds like it will support any version of Node that you'd like. If you want to run on whatever's on master, it should be possible.
AppFog was built originally around another PaaS, Cloud Foundry. Wonder how this offering will compare with that. I can understand that there would be more control because of the IaaS nature of the offering. Anything stopping them from doing the same with Cloud Foundry ?
We are not trying to hide these fact, it is just to let people know that this is a legitimate effort from legitimate people with more backing than a vaporware startup has. This is not AppFog though, which is why we do not feature these points prominently.
I am probably as close as you will get to an early adopter for this product. Make absolutely certain that I show up on your "customer interview" list. E-mail in profile.
I can't speak for this particular project, but Docker (on which this project is based) is already open-source, and you can absolutely deploy it on your own hardware. See http://docker.io for details.
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I am probably as close as you will get to an early adopter for this product. Make absolutely certain that I show up on your "customer interview" list. E-mail in profile.