This seems to be the "new standard" when it comes to startup infrastructure beyond Heroku.<p>However, what frustrates me the most about it, is that every startup is left to figure out everything from scratch and it seems impossible.<p>There are many tools you need to familiarize yourself with, too many to be comfortable with.<p>Companies that already figured it out write blog post like this, which provide insights but it's super high level, as a startup engineer this gives you absolutely no value other than "yes, they are using it too".<p>I wonder if there's a solution for this generic enough to open source that will be a good start for startups.<p>You check out the project, read some docs and in 2-3 hours you have a cluster running. Kind of a "batteries included" devops solution.
This past summer I spent some time learning Ansible. I've written scripts for the configuration and the deployment of my application's various services. The built-in idempotency of the commands was a big win for me and I feel fairly productive using the tool now.<p>My only complaint with Ansible really has been that it feels slow at times.<p>I'm interested in checking out Docker. What exactly does it buy me over my Ansible config/deployment scripts? Does it obsolete them?