What is Convox?
Convox is an open source Platform as a Service that runs in your own Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. Instead of signing up for a multi-tenant PaaS like Heroku, you can have your own. This gives you privacy and control over your platform and avoids the substantial markup on AWS prices that other platforms charge.
Convox is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Convox is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Convox's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Convox?
Companies
14 companies reportedly use Convox in their tech stacks, including Teespring, Truebill, and Flipside Crypto.
Developers
25 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Convox.
Convox Integrations
GitHub, Docker, Slack, GitLab, and Kubernetes are some of the popular tools that integrate with Convox. Here's a list of all 13 tools that integrate with Convox.
Pros of Convox
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Convox's Features
- Instant Deploys
- Runs in your AWS account
- Open Source
- Container Management
- Kubernetes
Convox Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Convox?
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.