I've since moved on to Kubernetes and SaltStack, but I got into production Docker containers with Deis[1] a year ago. With full Heroku buildpack support, Kubernetes backed, and great container tools. I feel like it's sad that this project doesn't get more love. It's a 20 minute deploy to GKE or AWS (I recommend GKE).

If you run OSX, TheNewNormal's solo and cluster Kube setup is a breeze and has the Deis Workflow as a one command install, then you have full local parity with deployment.

When I started with straight Docker figuring out the transition to the real world was be really daunting. Getting into a real production environment that I could compost quickly as I learned learn the paradigms was invaluable. Articles like this seem to buzzword their way into making the path muddier than it actually is.

Another big help for me was any time I needed to set something up, first thing, I'd look at how the bleeding edge was being done with Alpine. Practically you might not always run that light, but that community has all the answers.

[1]https://deis.com/ [2]https://github.com/TheNewNormal/kube-solo-osx [3]https://github.com/TheNewNormal/kube-cluster-osx

bogomipz

>"I've since moved on to Kubernetes and SaltStack"

I curious how those relate to each other. Are you using SaltStack to bootstrap Kubernetes?

btmiller

I'm actually right in the middle of putting that together as well. I quickly arrived at analysis paralysis when choosing how to bootstrap Kubernetes and run it in production given the tremendous flexibility. Tons of options[1], but nearly all of them are incompletely documented. Ended up walking through Kelsey Hightower's K8s the hard way[2] repo to peel it all apart.

End result will probably look something like Terraform -> SaltStack -> Kubernetes.

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/

[2] https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way