It's great to see all the good competition in this area. The more use, discussion, and cross pollination among them the better. Here's another one (Akkeris) I've used, open sourced by an excellent former employer and devops team: https://beta.akkeris.io/
Be careful, their (CapRover) embedded NetData image has the NetData upstream defaults for spyware, so you are advised not to enable it (use of their embedded NetData is optional).
It is straightforward to set up CapRover with an ssh deploy key and a webhook for deploying automatically on any repo change (even from a self-hosted Gitea, which CapRover also makes easy).
The github issue you linked to and the discussion it contains is the reason I am sticking with dokku. The CapRover maintainer seems to argue in bad faith and not have the users best interest at heart.
Author here. Just to be clear, this is false information. It's a toxic thread.
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The author of that thread is calling a software with analytics a spyware. By that definition, any website you use, including this very website you left a comment on, is spyware.
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NetData is built-in, but it's not enabled by default. Use is free to install/ or not to install the package.
Silent surveillance, which is not disclosed to the user. Additionally, the user's IP (and thus location) is also provided to Google with the surveillance data.
Webpages and local software are not the same thing. Local software does not need to report my activity to Google, a third party, to work. Webpages do require second party communication to function.
Surely you realize the difference. Your attempt to conflate the two is not productive.
If you believe they're the same thing, let's call it "analytics" then, exactly what it is. Let's avoid using the terms like spyware or etc which is an umbrella term which covers very serious damages such as stealing your bank info.
People at Convox[1] and Remind101 are doing similar open-source work.
Convox's business model is selling you the managed version of their open source rack. We've been using Convox in production for over 3 years now and we've had pretty good success with it. It's not perfect but the UX improvement for developers when building docker images, promoting new builds or rolling back cannot be understated.
Remind101 has built Empire[2] which is not a product they actually sell but rather the tool they use internally and have decided to open-source it. Empire is a little less managed and while it allows you to run services on it it requires you to have your own solution for building and hosting docker images.
Correct, both the Convox ECS rack and Empire are AWS exclusive. Convox has a public-beta of their rack running on Kubernetes which is cloud agnostic as it only needs a Kubernetes cluster to operate in.
Convox does not manage the underlying Kubernetes cluster. If you're using EKS it's managed by AWS, GKE by GCP, AKS by Azure, etc. If you're using a self-hosted cluster, then it's up to you to manage it. The Convox platform runs as Kubernetes CRDS so it is cloud agnostic.
What part of this is open source? I don't see any Github or other links to said source.
It looks like you're going to eventually build a company around this and maybe you will think about releasing the source then? In which case, the title is still misleading.
I do appreciate that you've released documentation ahead of the product, it does indicate that you understand how important that aspect of the business will be.
Looking forward to seeing this mature. I am using dokku to host Webase [1] on a dedicated server and also have used Heroku extensively. It feels like there is room in the market for a tool like this.
Dokku is available now. This landing page says RepoBus will have "Deploy to multiple servers", "Aggregated logs + search", and "Aggregated metrics + alerts" (and maybe others) that I think Dokku doesn't have.
