Ask HN: Is Micro-PaaS Dead?

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Dokku, Nanobox, Deis, Rio, etc, all don't seem to have much activity these days.

Serverless took over that niche. First with AWS Lambda & Google Cloud functions and nowadays solutions, like Google Cloud Run, do the same thing as Dokku & co without having to care about the ops part. They still make sense for the ones who use cloud providers with less offerings like Digital Ocean and don't want to deal with Kubernetes

I'm still maintaining and releasing Dokku though? Last release was less than a month ago, and there have been merges in the past week.

Ansible is good enough for me https://github.com/cupnoodle/rails-ansible

This. Ansible is extensible and simple and elegant. It can manage things at scale or can be used for small discrete tasks.

I have worked with Ansible for a few years in the industry and consequently I came to learn its dark side. For example, it has some of the most cryptic error messages I’ve ever experienced. At the time I first adopted it, HashiCorp’s offerings were not as open source as they are now, so I would recommend Hashi’s stuff as of today. However, I recently discovered “just” (https://github.com/casey/just) which is a good parity of ansible but minus the cumbersome YAML and the idempotent aspect which is mostly useless in practice for Ansible; so I would recommend taking a look at it and also consider aviary in tandem with Just (https://github.com/team-video/aviary.sh), together they are very simple and perfect for much of what one does with Ansible except for provisioning and orchestration which is where Hashi’s stuff comes into play.

Serverless wiped it out

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