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OpenShift offers five free 512 MB app/MongoDB instances

54 points by LiveTheDream 15y ago

praxeologist 15y ago
You've got a little typo: "the ability TO tail" under log tailing Looks neat though. I was looking for a place to work on some Mongo DB stuff so I will probably try this out.
mrspandex 15y ago
I don't understand how OpenShift is priced. The website does not seem to have any information on it.
- praxeologist 15y ago
  I think this is your answer: https://openshift.redhat.com/app/flex https://openshift.redhat.com/app/flex Provide your EC2 info or - Take advantage of Red Hat's free trial offer. The free trial includes 30 days or 30 hours (whichever comes first) of free cloud resources from Amazon EC2. The free trial is governed by the terms and conditions agreed to during the registration process for OpenShift. Please Remember: OpenShift is in developer preview with no service level agreements. * OpenShift should not be used for production purposes. * At Red Hat's discretion, it may decommission the resources it granted as part of the free trial without notification, explanation, or backup. * Users of OpenShift Flex are responsible for making backups of all their data * After the expiration of the free trial, the resources and data on them will be deleted * To maximize the time of your free trial we recommend that you stop your cluster when not utilizing it
- arctangent 15y ago
  I think it's free. Their FAQ [1] says: "OpenShift, is a portfolio of free, portable cloud services for deploying and managing applications in the cloud." [1] https://www.redhat.com/openshift/faq https://www.redhat.com/openshift/faq
krmmalik 15y ago
I still dont understand what GeoSpatial support and Map Reduce means. Anyhow, i'm excited to learn that companies are offering solutions for MongoDB, it gives me more confidence in putting together something in MongoDB. I see they're also offering RockMongo GUI. Does anyone know how to get the interactive shell working as per the example on the main MongoDB website?
- unjester 15y ago
  Interactive shell (known as Mongo Shell) coming in one week. Also will have ssh port forwarding so you can run things locally and connect to remote Mongo.
  - krmmalik 15y ago
    woo hoo. cant wait!! ;-)
unjester 15y ago
I work at OpenShift. On pricing: There are two models, the one quoted above where you use your own EC2 account and get 30 free hours, and one where you're running multi-tenant in our EC2 account entirely for free. On the second one (called Express), the intention is to keep these free instances and have people pay for additional capacity. It's a git interaction, languages are Java, Python, PHP, Perl & Ruby, and we're giving away the largest free quota of MongoDB so we can get your feedback.
- ryanfitz 15y ago
  This is the first I've heard of OpenShift, from the sounds of it there are a set list of applications/languages you can use on the platform? Are there any plans for node.js support?
  - unjester 15y ago
    node.js and others coming. And the architecture is pluggable, so once we enable 3rd-party plug-ins, they will come faster. :)
gsiener 15y ago
How long before we see a how to on "using OpenShift's free MongoDB instance with Heroku?"

54 points by LiveTheDream 15y ago

You've got a little typo: "the ability TO tail" under log tailing Looks neat though. I was looking for a place to work on some Mongo DB stuff so I will probably try this out.

mrspandex 15y ago

I don't understand how OpenShift is priced. The website does not seem to have any information on it.

praxeologist 15y ago
I think this is your answer: https://openshift.redhat.com/app/flex https://openshift.redhat.com/app/flex Provide your EC2 info or - Take advantage of Red Hat's free trial offer. The free trial includes 30 days or 30 hours (whichever comes first) of free cloud resources from Amazon EC2. The free trial is governed by the terms and conditions agreed to during the registration process for OpenShift. Please Remember: OpenShift is in developer preview with no service level agreements. * OpenShift should not be used for production purposes. * At Red Hat's discretion, it may decommission the resources it granted as part of the free trial without notification, explanation, or backup. * Users of OpenShift Flex are responsible for making backups of all their data * After the expiration of the free trial, the resources and data on them will be deleted * To maximize the time of your free trial we recommend that you stop your cluster when not utilizing it
arctangent 15y ago
I think it's free. Their FAQ [1] says: "OpenShift, is a portfolio of free, portable cloud services for deploying and managing applications in the cloud." [1] https://www.redhat.com/openshift/faq https://www.redhat.com/openshift/faq

krmmalik 15y ago

I still dont understand what GeoSpatial support and Map Reduce means. Anyhow, i'm excited to learn that companies are offering solutions for MongoDB, it gives me more confidence in putting together something in MongoDB. I see they're also offering RockMongo GUI. Does anyone know how to get the interactive shell working as per the example on the main MongoDB website?

unjester 15y ago
Interactive shell (known as Mongo Shell) coming in one week. Also will have ssh port forwarding so you can run things locally and connect to remote Mongo.
- krmmalik 15y ago
  woo hoo. cant wait!! ;-)

unjester 15y ago

I work at OpenShift. On pricing: There are two models, the one quoted above where you use your own EC2 account and get 30 free hours, and one where you're running multi-tenant in our EC2 account entirely for free. On the second one (called Express), the intention is to keep these free instances and have people pay for additional capacity. It's a git interaction, languages are Java, Python, PHP, Perl & Ruby, and we're giving away the largest free quota of MongoDB so we can get your feedback.

ryanfitz 15y ago
This is the first I've heard of OpenShift, from the sounds of it there are a set list of applications/languages you can use on the platform? Are there any plans for node.js support?
- unjester 15y ago
  node.js and others coming. And the architecture is pluggable, so once we enable 3rd-party plug-ins, they will come faster. :)

gsiener 15y ago

How long before we see a how to on "using OpenShift's free MongoDB instance with Heroku?"