Ask HN: Best solution for hosting docker app

4 points by ciaoben 11y ago ↗ HN

Hi, I am starting my path to the developer career. I've started using docker, it's amazing and keep my work portable! I would like to know which is the best solution to host docker images for production. I'd prefer something more solid than DigitalOcean or other pay-per-use services!

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trcollinson 11y ago ↗

Can you please elaborate on what you mean by "more solid than DigitalOcean or other pay-per-use services"? I would dare say that DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, and the like are quite solid and a great, cost efficient solution for hosting a production application. They are also quite easy to use with docker containers.

Gigablah 11y ago ↗

DigitalOcean is pretty solid so far. I've been monitoring uptime on my instances for a year and while a relatively new datacenter like Singapore was unstable for a while, I haven't gotten any alerts for the past few months.

puja108 11y ago ↗

If it's only about solidity DigitalOcean, AWS, and similar are ok for running single-host instances of your dockerized apps. If you want to get into clusters and scaling or are looking for a way to just take care of your containers and not of the infrastructure anymore, there's not many ready-made solutions, though. Amazon is working on ECS, and Google on GKE, but both are in a very early invite only Alpha stage. Other than those two, there's currently only us at Giant Swarm (http://giantswarm.io/) afaik. If you're interested you can register for an invite and if you contact me directly, I could get you the actual invitation a bit faster. Also note that there's quite a lot of self-service solutions based on Mesos or Kubernetes, but then you're back at managing your infrastructure yourself again and you still have to book DigitalOcean or Amazon Servers.