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comment by thundara
thundara  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski prototypical API is here

Sort of... it's power is as version controlled packaging / deployment. The config files let you say "install all of these dependencies, run services for a reverse proxy / search engine / database, hook them together like so, run X copies across a farm of machines, and expose these ports / directories within their file systems."

What sets it apart from other similar programs (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Vagrant) is that instead of running those programs in virtual machines or the hose machine, they are run within containers. This means less overhead than a VM, but also somewhat different security concerns