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CloudCaptain
Company blog · boxfuse.com/blogsystemsprogramming
CloudCaptain is the company blog at boxfuse.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Boxfuse: Test on VirtualBox, Deploy Atomically to AWS”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
CloudCaptain • Immutable Infrastructure Made Easy
Most-linked posts?
- Boxfuse: Test on VirtualBox, Deploy Atomically to AWS2 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2015-04-23
- Boxfuse – Immutable Infrastructure Made Easy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-18
- Deploy 7 MB Go VMs Effortlessly to AWS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-09
What Hacker News says?
We at Boxfuse ( https://boxfuse.com ) provide the same ease of deployment for running Java apps (as well as Go and Node.js ones) on AWS. All you need to type is literally: boxfuse run myapp-1.0.jar -env=prod And you automatically get things like auto-scaling, database auto-provisioning. easy debugging and more. Disclaimer: I'm Boxfuse's founder and CEO
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on ““It's The Future””Submitted Immutable Infrastructure: No SSH as a story · 89 points
HN discussionWe went to other way and kissed SSH goodbye a long time ago in favor of immutable infrastructure and automation: https://boxfuse.com/blog/no-ssh
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on “OpenSSH: client bug CVE-2016-0777”Submitted Deploy a Dropwizard Unikernel to AWS as a story · 33 points
HN discussionFor JVM apps Boxfuse ( https://boxfuse.com ) gives you dead-easy deployment to plain AWS by generating minimal VM images that run unchanged both locally on VirtualBox and in the cloud. It follows the principles of immutable infrastructure (machines are disposable and never modified) and all updates are performed as zero-downtime blue/green deployments.
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on “Running costs for running a web app”Submitted Deploying 15 MB Node.js VMs Effortlessly to AWS as a story · 22 points
HN discussionNo. For zero downtime deployments on AWS with blue/green deployments behind EIPs & ELBs, we at Boxfuse ( https://boxfuse.com ) offer a very easy solution for both Node.js and JVM apps based on immutable infrastructure.
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on “Now: realtime Node.js deployments”Submitted Why Immutable Infrastructure? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionWe do. We generate ultra-minimal Linux-based images tailor-made for your JVM app and provide rapid local testing on VirtualBox and full zero-downtime blue/green deployment orchestration on AWS https://boxfuse.com
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on “Docker Acquires Unikernel Systems as It Looks Beyond Containers”Submitted Deploy 7 MB Go VMs Effortlessly to AWS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is exactly what we provide at Boxfuse ( https://boxfuse.com ), with the ability to run it on VirtualBox, Hyper-V and AWS.
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on “My VM is lighter and safer than your container”Submitted Deploy any Linux x64 app on AWS with one command as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCongratulations to the Dropwizard team! We have had great results internally here at Boxfuse with Dropwizard. So good in fact that we decided to add Dropwizard-specific optimizations to our deployment tool for running Dropwizard apps on AWS with a single command. https://boxfuse.com/getstarted/dropwizard
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on “Java REST framework Dropwizard 1.0 released”Submitted Deploy 7 MB Go VMs Effortlessly to AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere is another one for your list: https://boxfuse.com We launched Boxfuse last month with support for running JVM apps as unikernels on VirtualBox and AWS. Here is a blog article from last week about deploying Dropwizard unikernels to EC2: https://boxfuse.com/blog/dropwizard-aws.html Disclaimer: I'm the founder.
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on “Look Ma, no OS”Submitted Boxfuse: Test on VirtualBox, Deploy Atomically to AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate." Amen. We couldn't agree more: https://boxfuse.com/blog/no-ssh
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on “Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services”Submitted Deploy Play Framework Scala Apps Effortlessly to AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf what you are after is generating AMIs for JVM, Node.js or Go apps, we at Boxfuse offer a great alternative to Packer with very fast creation of very small and secure AMIs https://boxfuse.com/blog/amis-in-30-seconds Disclaimer: I am the founder and CEO of Boxfuse
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on “Decommissioning Otto”Submitted Deploy Java EE Apps Effortlessly on AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you run on AWS, we at Boxfuse ( https://boxfuse.com ) offer a solution that could work for you: tiny machine images (starting at 5 MB for Golang apps) generated in seconds, no layers, immutable infrastructure, blue/green deployments and auto-scaling directly at the VM level both on EC2 as well as on VirtualBox (for rapid local testing). Disclaimer: I am the founder and CEO of Boxfuse
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on “Ask HN: Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, etc – how do you deploy your products?”Submitted Boxfuse – Immutable Infrastructure Made Easy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, we can confirm that. We let you generate and run unikernels for JVM apps on AWS at https://boxfuse.com Disclaimer: I am the founder
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on “Next-Generation Cloud: The Rise of the Unikernel”Submitted Fully Automatic Live Reloading of Spring Boot Apps on AWS with DevTools as a story · 1 points
HN discussionShameless plug: We at Boxfuse ( https://boxfuse.com ) offer effortless zero downtime blue/green deployments to AWS for JVM (Spring Boot, Play, Dropwizard, ...), Node.js and Go applications at a much lower total cost than Heroku.
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on “Heroku CI Is Now Generally Available”Submitted Deploy Grails Apps Effortlessly to AWS with Gradle and Boxfuse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you are on the JVM, our service does exactly this today: https://boxfuse.com No base images, minimal immutable images generated on the fly with only what your application needs, directly deployable on VirtualBox and AWS, with zero downtime updates using ELBs or Elastic IPs.
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on “Immutable Infrastructure is the future”Submitted Immutable Infrastructure: Fast and Reliable Scaling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSo are we! Currently at Boxfuse ( https://boxfuse.com/ ) we create VMs around 40 MB in size for Java 8 and we very much look forward to Java 9 to reduce this even further!
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on “Proposed schedule change for JDK 9”Submitted Boxfuse Convert: fully-provisioned AMIs in 30 seconds as a story · 1 points
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