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Scalr
Company blog · scalr.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Scalr is the company blog at scalr.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Scalr's homepage, promoting a drop-in Terraform Cloud alternative. Commenters mention it as a Terraform Cloud alternative, a sponsor of OpenTofu development, and a possible CI/CD fit. No comment judges the page itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Scalr is a drop-in replacement for Terraform Cloud that bills per run instead of per managed resource.
Most-linked posts?
What Hacker News says?
None of these are a replacement of Terraform Cloud (recently rebranded to HCP Terraform). For example, when you create a PR, it could affect multiple workspaces. The new experimental version of TFC/TFE (I refuse to call it HCP!) implements Stacks, which is something like a workflow, and links one workspace output to other workspace inputs. None of the open-source solutions, including the paid Digger [0], support thi…
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on “OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Provider-defined Functions”Submitted Top 20 Terraform Providers as a story · 13 points
HN discussionYes, that's mostly covered by the companies sponsoring OpenTofu's development: Spacelift[0] (I work here), env0[1], Scalr[2], Harness[3], Gruntworks[4]. [0]: https://spacelift.io [1]: https://www.env0.com [2]: https://www.scalr.com [3]: https://www.harness.io [4]: https://gruntwork.io
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on “OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Provider-defined Functions”Submitted Terraform Cost Estimation 2021 Guide as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is exactly what we're doing at Scalr ( http://www.scalr.com/ ). Our experience has been the following: + An open-source version that folks can download, install, and trial is a great way to get your software in as many hands as possible. However, that's also more work for you: if folks download your software and it doesn't install / has bugs they can't troubleshoot, you're providing a very bad experience, and t…
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on “Ask HN: Is it foolish to open source your SAAS business source code?”Submitted Never miss Terraform destructive changes again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://www.scalr.com/ could probably meet this requirement.
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on “Ask HN: Continuous integration and deployment server”Submitted Where is the Ops in DevOps? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFeels like this could be a big issue for companies like https://www.scalr.com/ - I wonder if they have a commercial license already. I've been tempted to try and put together a terraform cloud alternative myself - whilst I enjoy using it, the pricing is pretty expensive if you have many state files.
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on “HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License”Submitted If you're using Cloud, Chef may be good enough as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Policy Agent and Terraform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mission Critical: 5 Lessons from NASA JPL’s Cloud Journey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud-Native Is to Infrastructure What DevOps Is to Organizations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OPA templates for Terraform as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Terraform OPA Integration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Case Study:How Scalr Helped Samsung Reduce Infrastructure Management Costs. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Case Study Expedia: Hybrid Cloud Framework, Higher Developer Productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud APIs: An Assembly Language For Infrastructure as a story · 1 points
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