Play Framework Grid Deployment with Mesos

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89 points·tknaup··4 comments

Strange to see a post on the front page with so many votes and no comments. Has anyone played with this? It seems a lot more mature than the open source PaaS things people are building right now but I wonder how much harder it is to use in practice.

>> "By including the runtime dependencies of the application in the bundle you can avoid the “it works on my machine” problem that plagues container deployed applications."

Is he talking about a Docker/LXC like containers and recommending this rather than the normal Chef/Puppet style of provisioning?

I think with regards to dependencies he is referring to building fat / shaded jars (aka one jar to deploy).

To add to namidarks comment, there is a small movement within the Java/JVM community to move away from using containers to deploy applications. In this case containers meaning Glassfish, Tomcat, etc.

See Dropwizard, Spring Boot, embedded Jetty for current options when going containerless.

I don't see containers going away any time soon, but I definitely welcome containerless options.

Can you summarize the difference between those 2 types of frameworks/technologies? From their website descriptions they all look to be web frameworks. Sometimes I feel like Javaland is so entrenched in itself that it's hard to communicate ideas to and from the outside. I've just joined an enterprise Java outfit and it often seems like I've stepped into a different world.

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