The document discusses building a platform-as-a-service using Docker and Node.js, outlining key design goals such as process isolation, rapid deployment, and elastic scaling. It highlights components like user management and monitoring, as well as challenges related to routing and Docker API quirks. Future work includes enhancing user management and deployment strategies.

1. Building a Platformas-a-Service with
Docker and Node.js
@kevinswiber

2. You may know…

3. “We all live every day in
virtual environments,
defined by our ideas.” Michael Crichton

4. The enterprise
cometh…

5. Design Goals
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Process isolation
Rapid deployment
Ops visibility
Elastic scaling
Developer experience

6. Characteristics
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Transparent scale
Developers use their own tools
Access control
Status monitoring
Task scheduling
Release versioning / rollback
Zero-downtime deployments
Built-in analytics
Client SDKs for app developers

7. Components
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User Management
Routing
Logging
Application Lifecycle
Add-on Support
Monitoring

9. Docker Features
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Images
Community
Registry
Containers

10. Personal Platforms
Flynn
Deis
Dokku

11. borealis
http://github.com/borealis-io/boreal

12. Borealis
Components
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Routing
Logging
Host API
Deployment

13. Why use Node?
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Event loop
HTTP
JSON
Rich module ecosystem
We know it, and so do
you.

14. Challenges
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Routing between containers
SSH WTF???
$ man iptables
Docker API quirks

15. Future Work
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User Management
Application Lifecycle
Better deploy strategy
Scale out

17. Thanks!
https://github.com/borealis-io/borealis
Current contributors:
@kevinswiber
@mdobs
@AdamMagaluk