Open Source PaaS List
Platform as a Service simplifies and streamlines deployment.
Yes, I can use ssh+vi to manage servers. I did this since 1998, but ssh+vi is not a professional way to manager servers.
Yes, I know how to use configuration management (SaltStack or Ansible) to manage servers. But this misses the streamlining effect, which you get from a PaaS solution.
I know the basics of Kubernetes. But Kubernetes has too many options. That's ok for me, but I am looking for solution which is simpler for the end user.
Since Kubernetes has won the container-orchestration race, I am looking for a solution based on Kubernetes.
For completness some non-Kubernetes solutions are listed, too.
Up to now this is just brainstorming. I don't know the conrete goal nor the next steps.
Function-as-a-Service solutions are welcome, too.
Please ping me, if you know an open source solution which is not on the list yet or if you just want chat/talk about this topic. Direct messages are welcome.
Vague Goal
Make it easy for the end user.
With "end user" being a developer who can create containers, and wants to run them.
Wishlist
- As end user I just want to run stateless containers. Integrating stateful services like database and storage should be like plug-and-play.
- GitOps
- Accessing kuberenetes via Cluster-API.
- Cluster-API: Adding noes on demand should work out of the box.
- Scale to zero: If there is no traffic, then the application should not consume ressources.
- Cert management (letsencrypt)
- Documentation. I don't want to be the first who tries to get a Django based solution running on it.
Dokku
Dokku copies Heroku. I guess this is very great if you want to switch from Heroku to a self-hosted solution. But this is not my use case.
It is mostly written in Shell. I don't trust Shellscripts, but the author is maintaining it with love since several years. Looks stable.
First I thought "herokuish buildscripts" are great, but maybe this mixes two things which don't belong together: Creating a container and running a container.
Multi-Host: No
Container-Orchestration: Kubernetes (but up to now this Sheduler is experimental)
CapRover
Has a web-GUI.
Written in Typescript.
Nice docs.
Nice feature Rollback to previous Docker Image
The docs advertise DigitalOcean, but CapRover runs on Hetzner or any other VPS.
Multi-Host: Yes
Container-Orchestration: Docker-Swarm
Tsuru
Written in go.
Multi-Host: Yes
Container-Orchestration: Docker-Swarm
porter.run
License: Mit + ee directory (unsure if usable without ee)
Container-Orchestration: Kubernetes
Open FaaS
License: MIT
Container-Orchestration: Kubernetes
Note: If you look at this statistic, you might think that OpenFaaS is a one-man-show Github contributors. But this is not true. This repo that is one small part of a very large project with 40+ repositories. A better overview: https://kenfdev.o6s.io/github-stats-page#/
Knative
Container-Orchestration: Kubernetes
License: Apache-2.0