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It seems like cloudformation can replace a lot of this error handling stuff https://github.com/zenclabs/deploy/blob/master/src/service/a...

Yes indeed!

The reason CloudFormation isn't used is because it's a lot slower. It also has its own bugs, so it didn't seem like a big win: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46280080/cannot-delete-a...

See https://github.com/zenclabs/deploy/commit/72c1fc847661a0ed0d... for the old CloudFormation equivalent :) Happy to bring it back if there's demand for it!

I'm assuming this creates some sort of load balancing or ngnix routing to the cluster? (Some additional info on the page would be awesome!)

Thanks for sharing such a useful tool!

Currently, we set up a separate Application Load Balancer for each of your deployments.

It's technically possible to share a single ALB for several deployments, but it becomes harder to manage and sharing the same ALB between dev/prod/staging for example isn't necessarily a safe design (e.g. if you run some load testing on one deployment, it should not put other deployments at risk).

Will add more docs, thank you for the feedback!

demo looks good.. link to Docs ?

There's a quick manual in the README at https://github.com/zenclabs/deploy. We'll add some docs on the landing page too :)

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