OpenShift

OpenShift is Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service that allows developers to quickly develop, host,
and scale applications in a cloud environment. With OpenShift, businesses have a choice of
offerings, including online, on-premise, and open source project options.

Christian Bryant, from Toms IT describes OpenShift Enterprise, a platform that runs on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux:

“Some of the most popular and widely used web-application frameworks can be found under
OpenShift like Rack for Ruby, WSGI for Python, PSGI for Perl and Node.js for JavaScript.
Additional frameworks include Laravel, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Ruby on Rails, Django, Perl
Dancer, Flask, Sinatra, Tornado, and Web2py. To stay competitive, OpenShift offers features for
the enterprise like accelerated application service delivery, minimized vendor lock-in, self-
service and on-demand application stacks, and standardized developer workflows.”

Cloudify

Cloudify is provided as an opensource framework, however unlike how Openshift focuses on

application stacks and architecures, Cloudify is designed with the developer in mind, and aims to
make it easier to deploy new, simple applications. GetCloudify.org describes the Opensource
Platform:

“By using recipes to model the application, Cloudify allows users to automate the deployment
and management of any existing application stack. In addition, it gives the user a much higher
degree of control over the application stack itself – you’re not restricted to a specific version of a
web server of a specific load balancer implementation, as you are with the usual PaaS
platforms.”

Tsuru

Tsuru is a platform as a service product from Globo.com. The software that runs the service
is open-sourced under the Tsuru name, and is available on GitHub. Developers can use Tsuru to
deploy web applications in different languages on the platform. Tsuro’s website describes
criteria and capabilities of the opensource platform:

“Tsuru supports most web applications, so long as they can run on Linux. Tsuru takes care of
maintaining the services underlying the application, high availability, scaling and healing the

Cloud Foundry

Developed by VMware, Cloud Foundry provides dynamic products and as a platform as a

service as part of Pivotal software. Their motto, ” Built BY industry leaders, FOR industry
leaders”, is telling of it’s large open community of Ruby developers and users who support open
source services. Cloud Foundry describes the products features:

“Among the services Cloud Foundry offers for its hosted solution are MySQL DB, VFabric
Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, and RabbitMQ. A fairly straightforward model, Cloud Foundry
provides mechanisms for deploying applications, designing apps for the cloud, pushing apps,
using services, migrating databases, using environment variables and mapping custom domains.”

WSO2 Stratos

WS02 Stratos supports more core services than other available PaaS options today and is a good
option for enterprises that seek to “extend the flexibility and innovation achieved from
implementing heterogeneous environments on-premises, into the cloud,” According
to Businesswire.com.

“WSO2 Stratos offers extensible cartridge architecture, enhanced cloud deployment support for
multiple IaaS , as well as easy SaaS app development. The PaaS also provides data storage with
easy access, caching, and queuing, along with a SaaS app as a multi-tenant application, allowing
each tenant to deploy their own customized logic alongside it.”

The company is noted by Gartner as being one of the leading competitors in the application
infrastructure market.

1. Eucalyptus

The Eucalyptus project aims to bring a similar level of functionality of the Amazon Web Service
Cloud to public and private environments.
In fact, Eucalyptus implements the Amazon Web Service API to allow interoperability with
existing Cloud services and tools.
Eucalytpus supports both the KVM and Xen hypervisors for a range of Linux distributions.
Last month the project received endorsement from Red Hat is the form of a solutions partnership.
Eucalyptus can support resource management in private and public Cloud services.