Dotcloud becoming Docker
As a user of Docker, I'm excited. But as someone who uses the dotCloud PaaS right now to run a company, I'm a little annoyed, mostly at myself for not seeing this coming.<p>Clearly there's a diversion of resources away from the dotCloud PaaS to Docker, and that's going to have a toll somewhere. Despite the company's reassurances that everything is business as usual, I know that Docker [the project] is just too much of a beast and eventually the Docker [the company] will need to move on from the PaaS. (I should know, since I gave a talk about how "Docker is the future" just a few weeks after Docker was announced.) [0]<p>I'm not really sure what my choices are now, either; DigitalOcean, I guess? I don't want to manage servers myself, and I want to be able to pay on the memory-usage axis for my app instances (which Heroku doesn't allow). I wasn't super excited by DO last year, but maybe things have changed.<p>My current "light at the end of the tunnel" is hoping that the Docker-based PaaS ecosystem matures, but for now none of them seem like they're mature enough, and it's tough to keep up with all of them since it seems like another one pops up each week.<p>Here's my wishlist:<p>-- (1) command-line client for deployment via git repository and doing anything related to deployment (add new instances, remove instances, create new environments, assign domains to the PaaS router, etc.)<p>-- (2) clear pricing<p>-- (3) I can pay for more memory as I need it<p>-- (4) ability to specify environment variables in a configuration file that take effect on the container process<p>-- (5) web interface for administering the account<p>Anyone have any recommendations?<p>[0] <a href="http://spreecommerce.com/blog/spreeconf-DC-speaker-highlight-john-feminella" rel="nofollow">http://spreecommerce.com/blog/spreeconf-DC-speaker-highlight...</a>