CTL 001 – Deis CTO Gabriel Monroy explains Deis to us

This week, we are starting a new interview series as part of the CenturyLink Labs. We are going to try to keep these interviews short (30-40 mins) and packed with great content every week. Last week, we talked about Dies[1] and Flynn. This week, we are talking with the CTO of Deis, Gabriel Monroy. Here are the topics we cover this week with Gabriel: * **Do you have any statistics about how large the Deis user base is?** * Over 100 known installations * **Is Deis built to be multi-tenant or single tenant?** * Single-tenant * **Is Deis built to be mutli-server or single-server?** * Deis is built to be multi-server, but without any database or backend services managed by Deis * **What’s next for Deis?** * Deis 0.9[2] just released with Dockerfiles, Domain names and HA Routing * **How is Deis different than Flynn or Dokku?** * Different from Dokku because it is built for multi-server * **In Deis, apps are git deployed like Heroku, but can you talk about how services are managed in Deis?** * Deis does not do any database service management, only managed application code * **What do you think about ambassadors in Docker?** * Deis uses ambassadors for auto-registering and load balancing application instances transparently * **How do you scale Deis?** * By adding more Deis images, registering them into CoreOS via etcd * **What is Deis’ relationship with OpDemand?** * OpDemand is the parent company that develops the Deis open-source project * **And a few more great questions...** If you have any questions for Gabriel, feel free to leave comments in this post. [1]: http://www.centurylinklabs.com/flynn-vs-deis-the-tale-of-two-docker-micro-paas-technologies/ [2]: http://deis.io/deis-0-9-0-dockerfiles-domains-and-ha-routing/