Has anyone used AWS Fargate? I'm not all-in on AWS tech, and am feeling like it's better to keep things as agnostic as possible for projects. But maybe fancy tech is worth it? Or is this containers-lite?
@jws it’s a bit different. For Kubernetes (k8s) and AWS’s proprietary ECS, you still need to manage the instances where the containers are running on. Fargate is a service that does that for you — you still need to use k8s or ECS @33MHz@cgiffard
@keita I didn't connect K8S and ECS together like that before, as competing container orchestration options. I think I tried to say what you said. Briefer: Fargate = "Let Amazon worry about where containers run"? @cgiffard@33MHz
@jws “let amazon worry about the instances containers run on”, I think. ECS and k8s choose what instance to put a specific container on — although with Fargate the line is blurred @33MHz@cgiffard
@cgiffard@33MHz@jws also, if you’re wary of vendor lock-in, I would highly recommend against learning ECS and waiting for EKS (amazon’s managed k8s service) to become public. Or use GCP and their GKE service
@jws@33MHz@cgiffard k8s is super complex though. Really powerful, but has a pretty steep learning curve (at least for me. Maybe you’d pick it up really quickly:) )
@keita@cgiffard@33MHz Haha, I am a terrible sysadmin. I count myself lucky my DO droplet hasn't gone up in flames yet. ;) (Or maybe it has and I don't have the monitoring to tell. >.>)
@jws thanks a lot. Once EKS is available (probably earlier with ECS), I’m going to move as much as I can to containers. We’re managing 70-120 instances by hand and it’s not pretty. @33MHz@cgiffard
@cgiffard yeah, especially when considering application environments. It’s a lot easier to maintain a Dockerfile than it is to maintain a set of Ansible or Chef scripts @jws@33MHz
@keita The managed service from elastic has kuromoji, but if you need more you can get them to install some stuff and change configuration if you’re on a support plan. @33MHz@jws
@keita@cgiffard@33MHz You’re making me want to burn my VPS down and rebuild. Maybe next year… Though I kinda want to go the FreeBSD route, I definitely am more familiar with Docker than with FreeBSD jail admin at this point.