Interesting, but this is too much of a framework for my taste. I prefer to work with independent tools with a well-defined boundary, so that I can change them at will.
>Nanobox detects your app type and automatically configures the environment and installs everything your app needs to run
and
>Each Engine sniffs the code looking for a positive match to determine which language / framework your app is written in
and lastly:
>The matched Engine generates a Boxfile defining the services your app needs to run and how each should be configured
This sound quite fragile imo. No specs or configuration, it just guesses what all my deps are, and how to configure redis,mysql, and "other data-specific services" etc.
So an enourmous abstraction over everything except my source code with no configuration and a promise to "take care of everything" and forcing me to use their pipeline. Hm...
Yeah, that's gonna be a bit hard for it to do with our Clojure web app. Well, maybe. If it knows to install openjdk-7 and nginx because it sees a project.clj, then perhaps it really is as smart as it thinks it is.