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Cloud Foundry adds PHP, Python; AppFog now a user

21 points by bbr 15y ago

wattersjames 15y ago
Congrats to Lucas on a bold move to shake up the PaaS start-up space.
- cardmagic 15y ago
  Thank you James, AppFog is thrilled to be working with VMware, building yet-another-proprietary-system is like swimming upstream with your hands tied. Supporting the Open Source community by embracing it is the best way to build a PaaS these days. Anyhow, after understanding how Cloud Foundry works, it was a no-brainer, the code is so good!
  - teyc 15y ago
    I'm not sure why they are announcing CloudFoundry and all its news when it's in limited beta. I tried to get an account, but no luck.
    - burntflowers 15y ago
      Stackato is also in restricted beta right now. If you can take a micro-cloud VM, please grab one of these invite codes and try it out: AS-HN-ZJLH2P0IM0 AS-HN-6ZU3V9B36T AS-HN-FDQQIGL19N AS-HN-SDNQWQ3QTZ AS-HN-RDRMNWQKB6 AS-HN-V4HT1LQURL AS-HN-PUBZEVU2Q9 AS-HN-HQGDL45WKH AS-HN-AR61S65DYQ AS-HN-NRRQTIE9KN Go to http://tinyurl.com/stackatoinvite http://tinyurl.com/stackatoinvite to redeem your code. They're one-time use only, so if one doesn't work for you, try another one. If you miss out, you can request an invite code here: http:///www.activestate.com/cloud http:///www.activestate.com/cloud
erikb 15y ago
I don't get it, but also never used VM's for anything. Can you not launch a Linux or Windows instance as VM in VMWare? These platforms have multi language support. So what exactly is the story about AppFog? (Really don't understand the situation)
- jinushaun 15y ago
  Cloud Foundry is more like Heroku than Amazon's EC2. Sure, I can go onto EC2, fire up a new instance of Ubuntu, install Ruby on Rails, web servers, proxy servers, database servers, etc and manually manage everything myself, but that's a lot of work and a bunch of people have already solved that problem. The solutions are implemented in a way that hides all the complex "web-scale" details underneath so you as the developer only needs to focus on your code. Cloud Foundry is an open source version of that solution. AppFog ditched their proprietary solution and decided to use Cloud Foundry's codebase instead.

21 points by bbr 15y ago

wattersjames 15y ago

Congrats to Lucas on a bold move to shake up the PaaS start-up space.

cardmagic 15y ago
Thank you James, AppFog is thrilled to be working with VMware, building yet-another-proprietary-system is like swimming upstream with your hands tied. Supporting the Open Source community by embracing it is the best way to build a PaaS these days. Anyhow, after understanding how Cloud Foundry works, it was a no-brainer, the code is so good!
- teyc 15y ago
  I'm not sure why they are announcing CloudFoundry and all its news when it's in limited beta. I tried to get an account, but no luck.
  - burntflowers 15y ago
    Stackato is also in restricted beta right now. If you can take a micro-cloud VM, please grab one of these invite codes and try it out: AS-HN-ZJLH2P0IM0 AS-HN-6ZU3V9B36T AS-HN-FDQQIGL19N AS-HN-SDNQWQ3QTZ AS-HN-RDRMNWQKB6 AS-HN-V4HT1LQURL AS-HN-PUBZEVU2Q9 AS-HN-HQGDL45WKH AS-HN-AR61S65DYQ AS-HN-NRRQTIE9KN Go to http://tinyurl.com/stackatoinvite http://tinyurl.com/stackatoinvite to redeem your code. They're one-time use only, so if one doesn't work for you, try another one. If you miss out, you can request an invite code here: http:///www.activestate.com/cloud http:///www.activestate.com/cloud

erikb 15y ago

I don't get it, but also never used VM's for anything. Can you not launch a Linux or Windows instance as VM in VMWare? These platforms have multi language support. So what exactly is the story about AppFog? (Really don't understand the situation)

jinushaun 15y ago
Cloud Foundry is more like Heroku than Amazon's EC2. Sure, I can go onto EC2, fire up a new instance of Ubuntu, install Ruby on Rails, web servers, proxy servers, database servers, etc and manually manage everything myself, but that's a lot of work and a bunch of people have already solved that problem. The solutions are implemented in a way that hides all the complex "web-scale" details underneath so you as the developer only needs to focus on your code. Cloud Foundry is an open source version of that solution. AppFog ditched their proprietary solution and decided to use Cloud Foundry's codebase instead.