nixpacks VS copilot-cli

Example with Nixpacks:

We have an upcoming nixpacks builder that should work on ARM/ARM64, but there are issues in the nixpacks codebase I'm still trying to sort out before that lands.

I think this is something the writer of the article would be delighted to find: https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks

Yes, it builds the Dockerfile if it exists otherwise it uses nixpacks to create an image from source files for any language/framework. This image is then run using docker run .

I think this is true for Nix in the deployment/ops space, where debugging a broken build can be very frustrating. Language improvements are going to be less useful for app developers, the Flake learning curve is not going to get better with a type system.

Perhaps something like heroku buildpaks (https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks ?) would help devs get on the Nix train.

Hey! Any plans on integrating nixpacks? I'm one of the core maintainers & would love to help you out. No worries if not.

Uses NixPacks to build the images;

AWS Copilot CLI is an open source command line interface for running containers on AWS App Runner, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and AWS Fargate.

sudo curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/copilot https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/releases/latest/download/copilot-linux && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/copilot

Check out AWS Copilot CLI: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/

This is by far the best way to deploy compute into AWS in containerized workloads.

The abstraction you want is Jobs: ttps://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/docs/concepts/jobs/

Building this any other way on AWS would require provisioning multiple artifacts. The Copilot Jobs abstraction basically encapsulates the provisioning of those artifacts into one repeatable pattern.

AWS Copilot CLI is a tool that lets you deploy production-ready, scalable services on AWS from a Dockerfile in one command.

and here is the copilot page if you are interested https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/

For larger high availability required things, AWS ECS with RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, S3, etc.. Really like Copilot for deployment/env/secret/sidecar management (probably needs a rename now): https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/

We are spending about 60% less. Workload has actually lessened since AWS is so much more stable. Getting to a similar DX as Heroku was quite the lift, but once it's done, it's done. These days we generally only have outages when we screw something up ourselves. I recommend https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli for starting out on ECS.

I'd recommend checking out AWS Copilot (https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/)