What is Deis?
Deis can deploy any application or service that can run inside a Docker container. In order to be scaled horizontally, applications must follow Heroku's 12-factor methodology and store state in external backing services.
Deis is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Deis is an open source tool with 6K GitHub stars and 797 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Deis's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Deis?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use Deis in their tech stacks, including TBR, Hazeorid, and 4h.
Developers
29 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Deis.
Deis Integrations
Pros of Deis
16
10
8
7
5
4
2
1
Deis's Features
- Deis can deploy any language or framework using a Dockerfile
- If you don't have a Dockerfile, Deis includes Heroku buildpacks for Ruby, Python, Node.js, Java, Clojure, Scala, Play, PHP, Perl, Dart and Go.
- Deis can be deployed on any system that supports CoreOS including your workstation, as well as most public clouds, private clouds and bare metal.
- Deploy any language or framework with a simple “git push”. Use Deis to promote existing Docker images through a CI/CD pipeline.
- Choose your hosting provider configuration. Integrate Deis with the monitoring and logging tools of your choice. Retain root access to everything.
- Scale application containers up or down with a single command. To scale capacity of the Deis platform, simply add or remove hosts from the cluster.
- Deis is free, open source software released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Deis Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Deis?
Flynn
Flynn lets you deploy apps with git push and containers. Developers can deploy any app to any cluster in seconds.
Helm
Helm is the best way to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
