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AppFog: Tunnel to your database from your dev machine
- malachismith 15y agoSWEET
- ecaron 15y agoHow is this any better than using SSH tunneling?
- cardmagic 15y agoSSH tunneling is not possible in PaaS environments.
- jvoorhis 15y agoOr more directly, there is a high impedance mismatch between PaaS and existing SSH server solutions, for my reasons above. I'm not giving up on SSH for CloudFoundry altogether, but Caldecott is an elegant solution that fits our constraints and solves one of our customers' problems.
- troytop 15y agoI don't know if I'd go so far as to say TCP over HTTP is an "elegant solution" but it works well enough in the absence of SSH. The Stackato client supports this now as well. http://www.activestate.com/blog/2011/12/new-stackato-client-tunneling-and-https http://www.activestate.com/blog/2011/12/new-stackato-client-...
- jvoorhis 15y agoCaldecott leverages CloudFoundry's existing interfaces (e.g. router, service bindings, authentication). As a platform as a service provider, we've faced many challenges while operating OpenSSH for our customers, ranging from managing authentication with its authorized_keys files or custom patches, integrating with existing auditing systems and so on.
- ShabbyDoo 15y agoIn corporate environments where outgoing, non-HTTP traffic is blocked by default, individual developers can get their jobs done without going to 17 meetings over seven months to plead their case.
- marshray 15y agoI've always just used SSH for this.
- terinjokes 15y agoThis issue of why you couldn't do this before is that you don't have a shell account on AppFog/PHPFog machines.
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