Lagom without ConductR?

Question

Is it practical or wise to use Lagom in production without ConductR? The commercial licensing is putting me off. This framework looks like it could be pretty arduous to deploy and custom tooling for that can take a lot of effort to get right.

Answer 1

(disclaimer: I'm a Lightbend employee, currently core member of the Lagom team)

Edit (Nov 2018): Please refer to https://www.lagomframework.com/documentation/current/java/ProductionOverview.html#Running-Lagom-in-production for up to date information on this topic.

(original answer, Aug 2017) A lot has changed in the Lightbend stack since this question was added over a year ago. For example: ConductR is now free to use in production for up to three nodes. Also, the team behind ConductR is also working on providing tools to deploy a Lagom application on Kubernetes. The efforts on that front are very advanced and some of our sample apps can be deployed in Kubernetes already.