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Comment by dantiberian | Hacker News Reader

This is a great article, but it would be good to state up-front that the author works for a company that sells a service designed to help you go on-prem. It's not totally clear until later in the article that this is the case. It would also help put the article in context better.

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Another company that does this - very little marketing - is https://www.replicated.com . I don't get paid for recommending them but they do great work (some of our clients are theirs etc).

I'm doing a contract for one of their clients, it's quite a challenge to develop against that.

We've had the opposite experience using Replicated for npm's on-prem npm Enterprise software.

I was originally trying to build our Enterprise solution using Ansible, targeting a few common OSes (Ubuntu, Centos, RHEL); headaches gradually began to pile up, surrounding the "tiny" differences in each of these environments -- I'm VERY happy to offload this work.

It took me a little while to wrap my head around best practices regarding placing our services in Docker containers, but once I was over this conceptual leap I was quite happy.

Sandstorm.io is another. FWIW, we've been talking about these types of startups coming for a few years now. It's probably a few years out, but on-prem (or what I call the Intercloud) is definitely going to be bigger than anything we've seen yet.

I'm the OP and author. I figured that because it's on the company blog with an about us that says what we do this was properly disclosed. But maybe it could use an additional lead in.

Ah, I see now. I read the article on mobile, and it didn't show the sidebar there.

Ah, yes. I forgot we hide the sidebar for mobile. Will take this into account in the future.

Yep. I have to agree with this comment.

My first thought was about some advice I would give someone considering this (having been pushed into this situation by a large healthcare client years back).

But once I found it was a sales piece, that thought faded.

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