It really isn't "significant" -- it's just stringing together docker containers and the Google Cloud as a demonstration of how quickly someone can deploy a Go service. It's like the old Rails scaffold.
Like Rails scaffold, this isn't enough on its own. There's many concerns for putting something on the open web and making it ready for production use. But what is really slick about this is that it shows how low the barrier of entry is to containerizing and deploying apps very, very quickly.
Google Cloud is just one example. dotCloud, tutum, orchardup, and others are out there. I'm sure a self-hosted, possibility open source, solution will be on the way a la openstack.
The benefit of containers over clouds are widely documented--but as a developer it means FAST phoenix servers that mean I can iterate on deployment orchestration, configuration management, etc.
It really isn't "significant" -- it's just stringing together docker containers and the Google Cloud as a demonstration of how quickly someone can deploy a Go service. It's like the old Rails scaffold.
Like Rails scaffold, this isn't enough on its own. There's many concerns for putting something on the open web and making it ready for production use. But what is really slick about this is that it shows how low the barrier of entry is to containerizing and deploying apps very, very quickly.
Google Cloud is just one example. dotCloud, tutum, orchardup, and others are out there. I'm sure a self-hosted, possibility open source, solution will be on the way a la openstack.
The benefit of containers over clouds are widely documented--but as a developer it means FAST phoenix servers that mean I can iterate on deployment orchestration, configuration management, etc.