Load Balancer Memory Leak – A Postmortem Some applications deployed with Nanobox have been affected by a memory leak in their load balancer platform component. The cause of the leak has been identified and patched and there are some steps … Posted in Updates, Postmortem
New DigitalOcean Droplets & Pricing – Get More Bang for Your Buck DigitalOcean announced a significant update to their Droplet pricing plans that increases resources available to Droplets and introduces new Optimized Droplets. These updates provide (in most cases) double the amount of memory for the same cost you were previously paying. … Posted in DigitalOcean, Pricing
Logan McPhail Joins the Nanobox Team We're excited to welcome Logan McPhail as the newest member of the Nanobox Team. His primary responsibilities are front-end related but his familiarity and experience with other languages and technologies will likely have him helping with other things as well. … Posted in Nanobox Team
Package Issues - A Postmortem Over the past few weeks, many Nanobox users have run into issues with packages that have prevented successful builds and, in some cases, hindered their ability to deploy. These issues have been wide-spread … Posted in Postmortem
We've Closed Our First Round of Funding Nanobox has closed its first round of funding led by Kickstart Seed Fund and joined by Prelude Venture Fund and the Gem State Venture Fund. … Posted in Funding
Omatum Launches BugPlug Using Nanobox Omatum just launched their new app, BugPlug, a super simple bug reporting widget, on DigitalOcean using Nanobox. BugPlug makes it easy for visitors and users to submit feedback and bugs along with screen … Posted in User Stories
Apache 2.4 is Now the Default Apache Version in the PHP Engine Apache (httpd) 2.4 is now the default version used by Nanobox's PHP engine. Previously, when using the Apache webserver, the engine defaulted to using Apache 2.2. Apache 2.4 has been … Posted in Updates
Elasticsearch Now Available in Beta Elasticsearch, a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine, is now available to use with Nanobox apps. Nanobox's support of Elasticsearch is currently in beta, but please feel free to use and test it. … Posted in Features, Updates
The 2GB RAM Limit Has Been Removed Nanobox users can now scale to any size single server without having to add the Scalable Components app upgrade. Previously, base apps were limited to a single host with 2GB of RAM or … Posted in Pricing, Updates, Features
Scaleway Now Officially Supported Scaleway is now officially supported by Nanobox, allowing you to deploy apps to Scaleway with Nanobox. The Scaleway integration is currently in beta, but please feel free to use and test it. Setup … Posted in Providers, Features, Updates
Microsoft Azure Now Officially Supported Microsoft Azure is now officially supported by Nanobox, allowing you to deploy apps to Azure with Nanobox. The Azure integration is currently in beta, but please feel free to use and test it. … Posted in Providers, Features, Updates
Packet Now Officially Supported Packet is now officially supported by Nanobox, allowing you to deploy apps to Packet with Nanobox. The Packet integration is currently in beta, but please feel free to use and test it. Setup … Posted in Providers, Features, Updates
OVH Now Officially Supported OVH is now officially supported by Nanobox, allowing you to deploy apps to OVH with Nanobox. The OVH integration is currently in beta, but please feel free to use and test it. Setup … Posted in Providers, Features, Updates
Subdomains Now Resolve on Applications' nanoapp.io Domains An update to the project that powers Nanobox's nameserver allows subdomains on applications' provided "nanoapp.io" domains to resolve successfully. … Posted in Features, Updates
Hacktoberfest! Contribute to Nanobox open source projects throughout the month of October and earn a limited edition Hacktoberfest t-shirt from DigitalOcean and Github. … Posted in Promotions, DigitalOcean, Github
Daniel Hunsaker Now Officially Part of the Nanobox Team Dan Hunsaker now officially a member of the Nanobox team. His responsibilities include Managed Platform administration, off-hours assistance, and cloud provider integrations. … Posted in Nanobox Team
Nanobox Now Supports Password-Protected SSH Keys The latest version of Nanobox Desktop introduces support for password-protected SSH keys. New functionality allows user input to be piped down into build containers. … Posted in Features, Updates
Google Compute & Vultr Now Officially Supported Google Cloud Platform's (GCP) Google Compute and Vultr are now officially supported by Nanobox, allowing you to deploy apps to GCP and Vultr with Nanobox. The Google Compute and Vultr integrations are currently … Posted in Updates, Features, Providers
Tunnel Command Updated with Flexible Port Forwarding The `tunnel` command has been updated with added flexibility in configuring ports. You can now specify the local port and the remote port to which it forwards. … Posted in Updates, Features
Stream Production Logs from the Nanobox CLI Logs from live applications are now available in both your dashboard and Nanobox Desktop (the Nanobox CLI). Using the nanobox log command, you can stream live logs and/or view a specified number … Posted in Updates, Features
Introducing Managed Platforms Today we're excited to announce our Managed Platform offering designed to maximize application uptime and remove much of the burden your Development and DevOps teams carry. The Managed Platform includes three packages that … Posted in Updates, Features, Pricing
Direct SSH Access with Application SSH Keys App SSH keys are now available in your application dashboard and can be used to SSH directly into any servers or containers associated with your app. Up to this point, you could only … Posted in Features, Updates
AWS Selected by Hulu as Cloud Provider for New Live TV Service Last week Hulu announced that it has selected AWS as the cloud hosting vendor to supports its recently launched Hulu with Live TV service. Hulu's release of its Live TV service significantly increases …
Load Environment Variables from a File The new nanobox evar load command allows you to load environment variables from a single file or multiple files. # Pattern nanobox evar load <local | dry-run | remote> path/to/file nanobox evar … Posted in Updates, Features
SSL/TLS in Dry-Run Environments With the most recent version of the Nanobox CLI (Nanobox Desktop), SSL/TLS certificates are automatically generated and installed in every "dry-run" environment. The deploy dry-run command provisions a virtual environment … Posted in Features, Updates