depcon

For the past few years I have been a key game changer in moving my employers into SOA/Microservices architecture. Along with this I have pushed Mesos/Marathon and Docker as the clustering/container technology. I have completely changed the way engineering handles processes to be alignment with automation and continuous delivery of many services.

I had an epiphany when talking to a friend recently… For whatever reason I don’t use any of the above technologies for my personal blogs, websites and open-source projects. Yes, I contribute to the Docker project and have written management tools to handle blue/green deployments but I’m not using them for my own (outside-of-work) coding.

Why you might ask? I guess I was probably too exhausted from working 12+ hour days and leading my existing projects after hours to put the time in. Rackspace is one of my sponsors and along with that I receive a generous cloud credit each month. I’ve been using a fraction of what I could possibly use from them.

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Depcon is the fastest way to start deploying Docker containers to a Mesos/Marathon cluster. Here are a list of features to help you get started using Depcon in your deployment pipeline:

Native Binary: Written in Go with binary support for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows & BSD systems
Full Marathon Support: Supports 100% of the Marathon API
Multi formats descriptors: Accepts Marathon deployment descriptors in JSON or YAML
Group Support: Support for creating advanced deployment groups with nested dependencies
Output Format: All output and responses can be outputted in CLI Tabular, JSON or YAML formats
Property Substitution: Supports ${PROPERTY} substitution within the application descriptor. For example you can inject values from the build system directly into the template which resolves and deploys
Scaling: Quickly scale a running Docker application to set desired instance count
Resources: Quickly update CPU or Memory of a running Docker application
Task: Full task management
Async/Sync Deployments: Depcon allows you to deploy an application and either wait for it to become healthy or simply deploy and exit allowing you to poll on your own frequency using Depcon.
Environment Configuration: Depcon creates and uses a configuration file which allows you to define preferred global options as well as named environments. With named environments authentication details and endpoint info is saved allowing you to switch between environments quickly.

Kubernetes, Compose & Amazon ECS Future Support

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