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Kite – Self-hosted app platform built with Docker and Meteor.js

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It would be more helpful if you actually release a product and then show us, I have no idea how serious this is, what is background etc, to even consider allowing you to make my dev environment.

Lean is fine, but this is just too much for my taste.

I have been using juju for some time now and I think it does pretty much this and more.

It is a cloud agnostic service orchestration tool developed by Canonical. So of course you're using ubuntu images here but it allows deployment and service integration just like we saw on the video. It does not uses docker but Linux containers which is a level lower on the stack.

The magic happens in reusable components called charms (a bit like cookbooks in chef but with different purposes) which defines the installation logic and hooks to run when you want to integrate another service.

I really liked the concept behind juju and was convinced when I saw how I could deploy and configure a MongoDB cluster with replicasets, shards, config servers and mongos with just a few commands.

Anyone else heard about it? It looks like they're not communicating too much about it. And with Docker becoming the de facto standard now, I don't know how it's going to evolve in the near future.

I have read about it, but i never understood it was completely free and so powerful.

Reading more, i found this page to quickly make disposable development enviroments:

https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/config-vagrant.html

Juju is brilliant for orchestrating your services. Its refreshing to see a S.O.A. approach to configuration management and embraces it rather than having it as an after thought.

@tmikaeld - yeah the vagrant story with juju is an emerging one and great for getting started quickly on your Windows/OSX machine! But when running native, I prefer to use the local provider. LXC is so fast. When combined with BTRFS snapshots you get machines in ms.

Looks cool! Any plans to support Meteor apps, since you're already using Meteor? It would be awesome to have a Telescope image!

Absolutely! We're huge meteor fans and will be using it for our own projects too.

This looks cool, at first. There is not enough information to know if it really is.

How does that work in real life? How do you provide those Docker containers? Just Dockerfiles?

Is it paid or open source? The domain suggest it is open source, but can't be found on your org.

It certainly looks cool, I just want to know more...so that I could know if I should be excited or not. Currently, I am more like "meh, maybe?"

My 2 cents :)

I see they have a domain too: https://usekite.com/.

The part I am interested in is the "automatically" part of the "How does it work?" paragraph.

I just want to say that I know these guys personally. They're Lightspeed Fellows this summer (like myself) and work in the office down the hall. These guys work really, really damn hard are doing their best to find a product that is going to deliver the most value to all of you.

> They're Lightspeed Fellows this summer (like myself)

Is iit associated with Harvard in some fashion? http://lsvp.com/summer-fellowships/

Really cool :)

Would love to see a behind the scenes write up or screencast on how this uses Meteor w/ Docker.

One of the creators of Kite. We will be doing a lightning talk about Kite at the July Devshop in SF.

Will it be recorded so more than 99% of the people could also have some insights? :)

Pricing? Open Source?

BTW, your sign-up form doesn't accept anything other than US phone numbers. Nice of you to at least give an example fake phone number to put in, but not a great way to leave a first impression, even if you think you're only interested in US clients for now (btw I think you should make the phone number optional anyway, I'm sure I'm not the only developer who doesn't appreciate getting dragged out of the flow by a sales call!).

You should be able to sign up without a phone number:

http://usekite.github.io/

I have been stalking these guys vigorously since they launched RunKite.com (before it was just Ghost hosting); they're a smart, talented, scrappy bunch. UseKite will definitely be improving my team's workflow and development time.

They have something else up their sleeve, too, which I won't talk about. I say this because they have some really exciting things, and they're someone to pay attention to.

Would be nice to know if it's paid or open source.

And the signup form doesn't seem to validate phone numbers correctly.

Browsing around the users in the org at https://github.com/usekite also leads to https://runkite.com/ (Ghost blog hosting).

Bowery.io does this and is already avaiable and free. https://laracasts.com/lessons/bowery-is-pretty-darn-insanely...

Kite is self-hosted.

Really, where is that mentioned?

Submission + references to 'your own servers' on the website and github.

Must not be using links unless its an ambassador to nothing at first. Maybe specifying your own DNS server for the container. Or maybe using --net:container somehow.

Shouldn't this link to https://usekite.com ?

Is this open sourced? Or paid? I just signed up but still no word on whether this is paid or not.

perhaps it's too soon to announce anything but seems promising

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