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This blog post is surprisingly lacking in details. Here's some info I dug up on the Python/PHP support: http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20382447-python

by rgarcia 15y ago

This blog post is surprisingly lacking in details. Here's some info I dug up on the Python/PHP support: http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20382447-python-support-in-cloud-foundry http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20382447-python-supp... http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20386327-php-support-in-cloud-foundry http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20386327-php-support... Personally I'd like to see one of these PaaSs support Tornado. I think DotCloud has been promising it for a while...

cardmagic 15y ago
The nice thing about Open Source PaaS is that you can scratch your own itches, add a Tornado pull request and pretty soon it could be running on AppFog.com or CloudFoundry.com
- shykes 15y ago
  Good news! You can now scratch your own itch on dotCloud. We've added support for custom builds, which means you can run Tornado, Thin and any other asynchronous web server you want. We're planning a blog post about it the coming days.
  - cardmagic 15y ago
    Except if you scratch your itch on dotCloud, you can't run it on your own laptop like you can with Cloud Foundry Micro or on other services that might have a better interface like AppFog. That's the problem with contributing to a closed source project.
    - shykes 15y ago
      Lucas, I think you're being unfair to the dotCloud community. If I scratch my itch on dotCloud and share a cool Wordpress [1] or Thin [2] stack, how is that not open? [1] https://github.com/qpleple/wordpress-on-dotcloud https://github.com/qpleple/wordpress-on-dotcloud [2] https://github.com/jpetazzo/thin https://github.com/jpetazzo/thin At the same time you mention in your blog: "Appfog has secret sauce that we did not contribute to the open source project, ways to optimize PHP and the experience around PHP". For the sake of openness, I encourage you to share your secret PHP sauce as a custom dotCloud build. There's a whole community of hackers doing the same.
      - cardmagic 15y ago
        It is not open because it is not portable. You can't take wordpress-on-dotcloud and deploy it on any other architecture or platform outside of dotCloud.
jeffh 15y ago
ActiveState's Stackato already has Tornado support (we have a demo of Tornado Chat with MongoDB), amongst other features that are not yet in Cloud Foundry (Perl, run and db migration, ...). More about those at http://www.activestate.com/blog/2011/08/python-cloud-foundry-stackato-vsphere http://www.activestate.com/blog/2011/08/python-cloud-foundry....
- Pythondj 15y ago
  Stackato is in restricted beta right now. Here are some invite codes for anyone who'd like to 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
  - rgarcia 15y ago
    This is why I love HN. Thanks!

by rgarcia 15y ago

cardmagic 15y ago

The nice thing about Open Source PaaS is that you can scratch your own itches, add a Tornado pull request and pretty soon it could be running on AppFog.com or CloudFoundry.com

shykes 15y ago
Good news! You can now scratch your own itch on dotCloud. We've added support for custom builds, which means you can run Tornado, Thin and any other asynchronous web server you want. We're planning a blog post about it the coming days.
- cardmagic 15y ago
  Except if you scratch your itch on dotCloud, you can't run it on your own laptop like you can with Cloud Foundry Micro or on other services that might have a better interface like AppFog. That's the problem with contributing to a closed source project.
  - shykes 15y ago
    Lucas, I think you're being unfair to the dotCloud community. If I scratch my itch on dotCloud and share a cool Wordpress [1] or Thin [2] stack, how is that not open? [1] https://github.com/qpleple/wordpress-on-dotcloud https://github.com/qpleple/wordpress-on-dotcloud [2] https://github.com/jpetazzo/thin https://github.com/jpetazzo/thin At the same time you mention in your blog: "Appfog has secret sauce that we did not contribute to the open source project, ways to optimize PHP and the experience around PHP". For the sake of openness, I encourage you to share your secret PHP sauce as a custom dotCloud build. There's a whole community of hackers doing the same.
    - cardmagic 15y ago
      It is not open because it is not portable. You can't take wordpress-on-dotcloud and deploy it on any other architecture or platform outside of dotCloud.

jeffh 15y ago

ActiveState's Stackato already has Tornado support (we have a demo of Tornado Chat with MongoDB), amongst other features that are not yet in Cloud Foundry (Perl, run and db migration, ...). More about those at http://www.activestate.com/blog/2011/08/python-cloud-foundry-stackato-vsphere http://www.activestate.com/blog/2011/08/python-cloud-foundry....

Pythondj 15y ago
Stackato is in restricted beta right now. Here are some invite codes for anyone who'd like to 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
- rgarcia 15y ago
  This is why I love HN. Thanks!