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Heroku, AWS, GAE are popular and well-known... but by tightly integrating an application or service to a proprietary platform, you're pretty much at the mercy o

Heroku, AWS, GAE are popular and well-known... but by tightly integrating an application or service to a proprietary platform, you're pretty much at the mercy of the PAAS provider. To avoid vendor lock-in, check out OpenShift[1] from Red Hat. It's open source[2] so you can set it up on your own servers if you felt Red Hat weren't providing the service you required, or as redundant servers for fail-over. [1] https://openshift.redhat.com/community/paas https://openshift.redhat.com/community/paas [2] https://openshift.redhat.com/community/open-source/download-origin https://openshift.redhat.com/community/open-source/download-...

neya 14y ago
Thank you for these links :)
kh_hk 14y ago
I did a stupid test[1] a while ago on OpenShift. Everything worked pretty nice! [1] https://sscgol-h2o.rhcloud.com/ https://sscgol-h2o.rhcloud.com/
druiid 14y ago
There's also Cloud Foundry (Which is essentially becoming the standard for PaaS opensource) http://www.cloudfoundry.org/ http://www.cloudfoundry.org/ And then the 'pay' version created by Activestate and supports PHP and a pretty GUI http://www.activestate.com/stackato http://www.activestate.com/stackato
- bitcartel 14y ago
  What plans do VMWare have (or already enacted) to profit from CloudFoundry? Any implications for the project? Looks like Red Hat have followed their Linux model where OpenShift Origins is like Fedora, and OpenShift Enterprise is like RHEL. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/redhat_openshift_enterprise_paas/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/redhat_openshift_ent...
  - druiid 14y ago
    They have cloudfoundry.com which I believe will eventually be their 'service' and the .org is the open-source project. I can't think of any direct implications for them with this as it's essentially what Redhat is doing (as you pointed out). Basically the big thing with Cloud Foundry is it fully integrates with Openstack and similar whereas OpenShift is mostly meant for RHEL products.
vampirechicken 14y ago
What happened to OpenStack? Is nobody supporting that?

neya 14y ago

Thank you for these links :)

kh_hk 14y ago

I did a stupid test[1] a while ago on OpenShift. Everything worked pretty nice! [1] https://sscgol-h2o.rhcloud.com/ https://sscgol-h2o.rhcloud.com/

druiid 14y ago

There's also Cloud Foundry (Which is essentially becoming the standard for PaaS opensource) http://www.cloudfoundry.org/ http://www.cloudfoundry.org/ And then the 'pay' version created by Activestate and supports PHP and a pretty GUI http://www.activestate.com/stackato http://www.activestate.com/stackato

bitcartel 14y ago
What plans do VMWare have (or already enacted) to profit from CloudFoundry? Any implications for the project? Looks like Red Hat have followed their Linux model where OpenShift Origins is like Fedora, and OpenShift Enterprise is like RHEL. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/redhat_openshift_enterprise_paas/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/redhat_openshift_ent...
- druiid 14y ago
  They have cloudfoundry.com which I believe will eventually be their 'service' and the .org is the open-source project. I can't think of any direct implications for them with this as it's essentially what Redhat is doing (as you pointed out). Basically the big thing with Cloud Foundry is it fully integrates with Openstack and similar whereas OpenShift is mostly meant for RHEL products.

vampirechicken 14y ago

What happened to OpenStack? Is nobody supporting that?