We at OpDemand wish the Flynn crew the best of luck. I expect more Docker-powered PaaS's to sprout up, so I'm glad Solomon and the dotCloud crew are focused so heavily on interoperability.
OpDemand will be releasing a very similar open-source project called Deis in the next few weeks. It's an open-source PaaS powered by Docker & Chef, with a Heroku-inspired workflow.
We're busy ironing out a few final issues, putting together documentation, quick-start guides, tutorials, etc.. but we are very close to launching our public 0.1.0, which will allow you to deploy your own private PaaS providing you complete control over hosting, backends, proxies and more.
Thanks. We're excited to share our take on private PaaS with the open source community.
Re: Puppet -- A good chunk of the "orchestration" is done by updating data bags on a Chef Server, and force-converging Chef nodes over SSH. However I know Puppet has similar constructs, so it's definitely possible to fork the Deis controller and Puppetize it. We'd encourage that sort of contribution.
OpDemand will be releasing a very similar open-source project called Deis in the next few weeks. It's an open-source PaaS powered by Docker & Chef, with a Heroku-inspired workflow.
We're busy ironing out a few final issues, putting together documentation, quick-start guides, tutorials, etc.. but we are very close to launching our public 0.1.0, which will allow you to deploy your own private PaaS providing you complete control over hosting, backends, proxies and more.