DigitalOcean Acquires Nanobox(blog.digitalocean.com)
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DigitalOcean Acquires Nanobox
https://blog.digitalocean.com/digitalocean-acquires-nanobox/
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I'm in the same boat as you, I really really liked NanoBox because I could just not worry about deployment and I could stand up and tear down my whole infrastructure quickly after I was done with testing.
I was also concerned that NanoBox had gone quiet for a while, and I am a little scared of there being a DigitalOcean lock-in.
However... I love DigitalOcean and they seem to be going from strength to strength - looking at their block storage, managed databases and Kubernetes offerings as things I want to get playing with soon.
Excited for what the future holds for this.
I was also concerned that NanoBox had gone quiet for a while, and I am a little scared of there being a DigitalOcean lock-in.
However... I love DigitalOcean and they seem to be going from strength to strength - looking at their block storage, managed databases and Kubernetes offerings as things I want to get playing with soon.
Excited for what the future holds for this.
I actually enjoy deployment, managing and setting up a new linux VM is fun. What about deployment do you dislike?
I think there's a couple of reasons:
- I've never felt comfortable with the command line, and only use it when I have to. I like the Nanobox will do everything for me with just a line or two (once you've created the Boxfile).
- Also, I tend to play around with a lot of small-ish ideas, so I want the ability to quickly throw something up without having to think about how I'd provision all the services, and if it did get big, I can scale it with Nanobox without having to figure out how to do it manually.
- I've never felt comfortable with the command line, and only use it when I have to. I like the Nanobox will do everything for me with just a line or two (once you've created the Boxfile).
- Also, I tend to play around with a lot of small-ish ideas, so I want the ability to quickly throw something up without having to think about how I'd provision all the services, and if it did get big, I can scale it with Nanobox without having to figure out how to do it manually.
Reliable backups. But this was a problem nanobox didn‘t solve it yet.
A little off topic, but when did Ben and Moisey Uretsky (founders) leave their daily duties at DigitalOcean? Only shows them on the board now [1].
[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/about/leadership/
[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/about/leadership/
Neither of them have ever not been daily on building DigitalOcean. Both of them work on it every single day. Moisey moved to a focusing on helping Ben and board structure the business around 2014. Ben started the process of looking for a CEO to do the next part about 2 years ago, and stepped back this year. However, as mentioned, both of them are still very actively involved.
This really is great news. I had the feeling that nanobox lost a bit of momentum. So I hope this means new updates and features.
Well, can't sign-up because it's been acquired. So it seems like vendor lock-in is pretty certain :(
Customers (including me) on their Slack were getting pretty worried about the lack of announcements from them. I hope this means it’s going to get even better, although I know many are worried that they’ll now drop support for platforms which aren’t DigitalOcean.