MRSK vs. Fly.io

I recently migrated a small Rails project (16,000 monthly users) from Heroku to Helm&#x2F;Kubernetes, after having tried Fly.io and everything else. It was easy, and I like the peace of mind of zero-downtime deploys and non-beta infrastructure. Cost is comparable to Heroku.<p>My writeup, in case it helps others: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vmii.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vmii.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;</a>

something to note DHH is a beast. MSRK seems most of MSRK was written by him alone - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mrsked&#x2F;mrsk&#x2F;commits&#x2F;main?after=83dc82661b8a02dd1fbb0ee91261104cee127862+594&amp;branch=main&amp;qualified_name=refs%2Fheads%2Fmain">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mrsked&#x2F;mrsk&#x2F;commits&#x2F;main?after=83dc82661b...</a><p>his output is crazy. that&#x27;s why he gets the big bucks

&quot;vs.&quot; (versus) is misleading; TLDR Fly.io likes and claims alignment with MRSK, which is 37signals&#x2F;DHH&#x27;s new mechanism for managing dockerized apps with a strong &quot;get off the cloud, run it locally&quot; story.

Couldn&#x27;t something like this be a few hundred lines of Ansible? Not trying to be intentionally negative but I don&#x27;t really get the use case as I feel this is a pretty well established process by existing tools for server automation and provisioning.

Wow, the MRSK homepage is truly Web 1.0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrsk.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrsk.dev&#x2F;</a>

I wish there was something like MRSK for deploying generic Dockerfiles onto VMs from scratch, without the mess of Kubernetes or needing to use Rails.<p>Like, provision Hetzner -&gt; pass the IP address to the tool + a Dockerfile -&gt; your image Just Works on the server and restarts if it crashes.

It&#x27;s not a really apple to apple kind of comparison.<p>MRSK won&#x27;t handle your load balancer, SSL, etc.<p>Btw if you are interested in Rails config for Fly.io, I have one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;businessclasskit.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;how-to-deploy-rails-sidekiq-fly-io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;businessclasskit.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;how-to-deploy-rails-sideki...</a>

I&#x27;m curious about the name. Is it from Maersk the Danish shipping company?

I&#x27;m surprised 37signals built MSRK as an alternative to Kubernetes.<p>They stated 2 reasons.<p>Deployments to K8s are slow.<p>K8s is hard to setup on bare metal.

Marketing is truly an art. Although there are thousands of projects on this subject, the man can share wonderfully as if he has discovered something new. I appreciate.

Interesting to see fly comparing themselves to an open source project. I guess they legitimately think it&#x27;s cool and want to see mrsk catch on? I&#x27;m not sure what the marketing angle is here (and &quot;competitor vs us&quot; is such a common thing that it&#x27;s hard not to think of the marketing angles here)

(movie trailer voice)<p>in a world where backend is a single binary and frontend is a single html file…<p>who needs containers or complicated devops?

I&#x27;d really like something like platform.sh as open source. I&#x27;d be willing to contribute as well :)

fly.io&#x27;s been a little under my radar but are they the new DigitalOcean or something?

Right