DigitalOcean App Platform

I'd be interested to know if this is integrated and rebranded nanobox [0]? Or something completely from scratch?

[0]: https://nanobox.io/

We certainly took a lot of inspiration and leaned on the awesome experience of the nanobox team, but this is largely a completely different architecture.

I am out of the loop, but at a quick loo it seems nanobox provided a way to deploy apps on top of Digital Ocean. Since you said "integrated and rebranded", does that mean DO bought nanobox? Or they just "copied" it*?

Nanobox was acquired by Digitalocean. More details at https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-acquires-nano...

It's completely from scratch, and based on playing around with it, it's a weird kubernates system. Which is why the pricing seems super weird compared to existing DO products (100GB's base and then you pay per a GB).

Nanobox was a tool that allows you to build and manage a container with setups for heroku build packs. It handled deployment, load balancing, etc. Similar to heroku for example. But it also worked with Vultr, Amazon, etc.

Can you tell us anything about the architecture?

We will be revealing a lot more about the architecture at our upcoming virtual conference called Deploy that is happening Nov 10-11th. There are a few sessions that touch on how the platform was implemented and I encourage you to tune in for those! (schedule to be announced soon). https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/

Wasn't the Appsail nanobox? IIRC, it was planed to be DO's PaaS, so it's cancelled and then DO's PaaS is based on k8s instead?

Appsail was nanobox from what I saw, they redid it between appsail and "apps".

If Appsail was cancelled, what's the point of nanobox acquiring .. I wonder?

I was hoping to see more about what happened to Nanobox after Digital Ocean aquired them. I thought what they had was really well done and was excited to see where they took it.

Maybe an acquihire? I don't recall seeing any of the nanobox people even mentioned or reply in any of the slack messages. So I am not really sure.

I was guessing KNative, which powers Google Cloud Run.

https://knative.dev/

Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on their site which seems to indicate they were going to release something. I guess that's not happening any more!

This is what I found out by printing the environment variables: https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1306343018488791040

Google's Cloud Run the SaaS doesn't use KNative + K8s under the hood. It just uses a compatible HTTP API.

That's correct, though "Cloud Run for Anthos" is KNative + k8s + secret sauce though (I work on it).

Google has reached Microsoft-level naming complexity...

- https://cloud.google.com/anthos/run/

It‘s so sad nanobox was acquired and now trashed by digital ocean. It was comparable to a dokku/flynn on steroids, it was a very promising stack for self-hosted herokus.