January 9, 2012
Open Shift PaaS by Red Hat Cloud embraces computing's New Wave, albeit without the day-glo colors and synthesizer riffs. We're talking about the cloud, people!
OpenShift is a portfolio of free, portable cloud services for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. Currently there are two application deployment services offered as part of OpenShift; Express & Flex. Express is a free, cloud-based application platform for Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby applications delivered in a shared-hosting model. With just a few commands you’ll be able to deploy your application to the cloud. Flex is a cloud-based application platform for Java EE and PHP. Applications can be deployed on middleware components such as JBoss and Tomcat. Flex is an ideal platform for those who require a greater degree of control and choice over their middleware components with valuable features including versioning, monitoring and auto-scaling.In civilian-speak, that means they offer the next generation in open source software, which means everyone shares the technology for free. And instead of the software living on some developer's computer, it lives in the cloud. Kind of dreamy, isn't it? It is a little fantasy-like. You see, in the wild west of the internets there are white hats and there are black hats. And then there's Red Hat. When they rode into town, everything changed. That's right: yesterday's cowboys are today's code jockeys. P.S. You're wondering what PaaS means, aren't you? And you can't stop thinking about dyeing Easter eggs? We get you, but you're a little off the mark. It's still cool, but not quite as messy.