Porter - Heroku that runs in your own cloud

Thanks @hahnhouse 🙏

Thanks @john_garner!

@christophdumont Thanks, let us know what you think!

@scott_ames_messinger thanks! We use Prometheus as the built-in metrics solution, exposing some pretty basic defaults: the rate of network received bytes, the memory usage bytes, and the CPU usage (for each metric, you can view it per-pod or summed across all pods in a deployment). Since we install the NGINX ingress controller by default, you would be able to view these metrics for NGINX, but not at the AWS load balancer level. We're experimenting with different metrics views since they're pretty easy to implement with Prometheus -- for example, for the NGINX ingress controller which exposes custom metrics, we could display things like upstream latency, number of connections, etc. Feel free to reach out with more specific questions!

@abelanger Are you all using the AWS NLB or ALB? If the ALB, we can see those request metrics in the AWS console which would be fine. If the NLB, having NGINX metrics would be vital. Otherwise, we're just flying blind and NGINX could be throwing 502s and we're none the wiser. If you all add those, please let me know! I'd love to migrate over. Also, I didn't see any documentation about this, but I'm assuming it's easy to rollback to previous versions (like in heroku) and environment management is done through the web ui?

@scott_ames_messinger We support both the NLB and ALB based on the ingress annotation, but default to NLB pointing to the NGINX ingress controller. This setup seems to be the best user experience for custom domains due to the static IP address that gets assigned, so I think we're going to be primarily supporting NLB + NGINX in the short to medium term. Will definitely reach out when we have custom NGINX metrics! In terms of rollback, yes, you can roll back to any previous version of the application. For environment management, we don't have the equivalent of Heroku pipelines or preview environments (yet!), but we do support multiple clusters per project that you could use for staging/production.

@abelanger NLB makes total sense. Love to hear when you get NGINX metrics!

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Thanks @angelinetan, really appreciate it!