Questions tagged [paas]
paas is short for Platform-as-a-service, a category of cloud-centric services.
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What is SaaS, PaaS and IaaS? With examples
What do the following terms mean?
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS?
There are various cloud services available today, such as Amazon's EC2 and AWS, Apache Hadoop, Microsoft Azure and many others. Which category does ...
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What is the difference between Cloud Foundry and Docker?
I am a Java developer. We use Weblogic to host our applications. I have been told to look into replacing weblogic with an opensource alternative. We are planning use with SpringBoot. We are also ...
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Cloud Foundry explained
So I've been reading up on Cloud Foundry and yet I'm still confused as to what it is. Here is my take anyway on PaaS on CF, and hopefully you guys could tell me if I'm wrong and explain it a bit ...
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Single Sign-On in Microservice Architecture
I'm trying to design a green-field project that will have several services (serving data) and web-applications (serving HTML). I've read about microservices and they look like good fit.
The problem I ...
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What are the best practice for domain names (dev, staging, production)? [closed]
With the rise of containers, Kuberenetes, 12 Factor etc, it has become easier to replicate an identical environment across dev, staging and production. However, what there appears to be no common ...
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Is there an equivalent to Heroku for the ASP.NET platform? [closed]
I can't see a reason why we couldn't do the same thing Heroku does for an ASP.NET website.
Anyone care to object?
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Looking for PaaS providers recommendations [closed]
I want to develop our new project using a PaaS provider. I'll be developing primary in PHP, but would like that the service can provide other languages too (and add-ons available too, like MongoDB, ...
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Google App Engine vs Heroku
I am starting a web app and it would be the first time I use cloud services (PAAS).
I am building an IOT platform that intends to display live data coming from bluetooth and using python.
I am ...
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Azure vs Appharbor vs Amazon EC2 [closed]
I am starting developing new online business and I am not sure what technology to use for hosting.
I have used Microsoft Azure in my pervious projects, I did not have any problem with it, it was just ...
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Cross platform interface for virtualenv
I have developed my entire project (Django, Python) on Windows and all the PaaS out there use Linux.
VirtualEnv on Linux:
VirtualEnv_dir /
bin/ activate, activate_this.py
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PaaS (Platform as a service) for PHP [closed]
I have walked a long road, finding out all possible 'AppEngine' for PHP solutions and am still not where I would like to be. Here is what I have seen so far:
pagodabox.com
I love these guys. They ...
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What's an openshift gear? Can it be the equivalent of a web-worker?
Openshift pricing model states that you can have 3 gears in the free tier.
Other services normally explain their free tiers in number of "web workers" that you can have.
What is an openshift's gear ...
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Azure - difference between service endpoint and private endpoint in simple terms
I am not able to understand the difference between service endpoints and private endpoints clearly.
Need help preferably with an example.
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Heroku vs Elastic Beanstalk with Django + Postgres
If I am planning to deploy a Django + Postgres site and I would like to do so to a PaaS, what are the major differences between what Heroku and Elastic Beanstalk will offer me?
What are features that ...
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Microsoft Azure VMs IaaS or PaaS?
I would like some clarification on whether Azure VM's are strictly IaaS or can be PaaS depending on the amount responsibilities the creator/user has.
I've seen multiple different website saying VM ...
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Is there a Paas solution that avoids NSA prism spying?
I want to deploy my application and looking at Appharbor or Amazon beanstalk for my .net project.
I'm concerned about security and was put off by Microsoft (and therefore Azure) being a key player in ...
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Why should a 12 Factor app be self contained?
In the 12 Factor article on Port Binding
http://12factor.net/port-binding there is a requirement that every app
be self-contained and not have a runtime injected e.g. Tomcat. For
what reason is this ...
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Appfog mysql tunnel error - Encryption not available on this event-machine
We've established a connection to appfog using caldecott and af tunnel command. We try to connect to a mysql service to load and execute a big .sql file to populate the db.
We tried it from 3 ...
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Heroku vs DotCloud vs Duostack vs other cloud/PaaS providers (Rails and non-Rails)?
We have a very simple function (We look something up from a third party database and return an answer. It's literally five lines of code.) We would like to offload this task from our main server ...
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UML Deployment Diagram for IaaS and PaaS Cloud Systems
I would like to model the following situation using a UML deployment diagram.
A small command and control machine instance is spawned on an Infrastructure as a Service cloud platform such as Amazon ...
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blue green deployment on heroku or another cloud platform as a service
We're currently running a Ruby on Rails project (RefineryCMS) on Heroku with two dynos.
Every time we update the site we experience downtime for about 1 to 2 minutes. Management are not happy about ...
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After which type of Exceptions/Crashes does an Azure Cloud instance perform restarts?
As far as I remember, a role instance should automatically perform a restart after a crash/failure.
In order to test that behaviour, I wrote an application that enforces an out-of-memory-exception and ...
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How to set up multiple "environments" with CloudBees?
I just read all the CloudBees developer docs and was surprised I didn't see anything about setting up multiple environments for your deployment pipeline.
I plan on running my app locally, then ...
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Openshift use for Commercial web sites
Can we use OpenShift Express, which is free right now, for commercial web applications?
And if not, then which PAAS services are there which are free, and have no vendor lock-in.
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What is exactly a platform as a service? [closed]
My question is what exactly is platform as a service, and if my concepts of IaaS and SaaS are really correct.
IaaS: When you can specify your needs at machine level you're consuming IaaS, it means ...
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cloudfoundry: how to use filesystem
I am planning to use cloudfoundry paas service (from VMWare) for hosting my node.js application. I have seen that it has support for mongo and redis in the service layer and node.js framework. So far ...
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Hosting node.js
Is there any PAAS provider where a small, productive, non-profit node.js application can be hosted for up to 10Euro/month.
no.de: for development only, no predictions about availability
heroku: when ...
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Deploy simple Java Web Application on Appfog
I started using appfog ( http://www.appfog.com/ ) and I haven't found any resources explaining how to deploy a simple Java Web application. I tried extracting a .war file I have and then updating the ...
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What Haskell web framework would one use for an HTTP/Websocket data and messaging platform?
Just looking at Haskell and web frameworks and wondering if it would make sense to use Haskell's great threading/event functionality to power a platform for writing HTML5 and REST apps that expose an ...
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CloudBees and App Cells, Instances and Pools
I am trying to understand the difference between:
An app-cell
An app instance; and
An app pool
For instance, how do I know when it is appropriate to add more app-cells for my app? Or to add more ...
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Hosted message queue for Java-based app in AWS us-east?
I'm looking for a message queue as a service that ..
.. is hosted in AWS us-east
.. offers real PubSub (not polling!)
.. can be used in production
.. offers high availability
.. has a good client for ...
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SOA cloud in PaaS possible?
I'm currently at the drawing board of a new service cloud we're building with a service oriented architecture. The idea is like this:
A cloud of, say 10, services.
3 completely different layers of ...
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PHP Websocket server in Linux hosting [closed]
I have a GoDaddy Linux hosting , any idea how do I run a websocket server for my HTML5 web app ? Any other recommendation ?
I know VPS can do it, but it is costly , any PaaS solution ?
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Sitecore 9 PaaS architecture: provisioning content delivery
I'm in charge of provisioning a new Sitecore system on Azure as PaaS. I want to provision 3 environments in as many different regions. Still I want to have a main region which will provision a full XP ...
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CloudBees, Availability Zones and Disaster Recovery
What is the difference between what CloudBees calls a region-specific deployment and what they (and Amazon) call an availability zone?
From what I can tell, CloudBees allows you to deploy in 1 of 2 ...
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PouchDb on PAAS (Heroku, Bluemix, etc)
I've gotten some great feedback from Stackoverflow and wanted to check on one more idea.
Currently I've got a webapp that runs nodejs on a PAAS (Heroku and trying out bluemix). The server is being ...
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Add custom domain to Azure web app without validation
I am on a project that is re-platforming a site from a web server to an Azure PaaS web app, in addition the site will have all new content and in some cases new URLs. We have some redirects in place ...
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How to serve static files with django that has hardcoded relative paths on Heroku/OpenShift/etc?
I have HTML/JS/CSS files provided by a third party (whom I have no control over) that serves as a single page app that communicates with a backend built with Django and django-rest-framework.
I'm ...
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Deploying nodejs app with Open Shift PaaS
I'm starting with Open Shift PaaS and I picked a node.js app as my first try.
So far I'm getting a 503 when I try to access my app site.
I've tried:
Set my github repo,
set the ssh key at github ...
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Cloud computing service for PHP and Node.js
I am using PagodaBox to scale PHP applications deployed via git.
In this application I would like to include also Node.js.
To me, PagodaBox seems not able to integrate Node.js. Can you recommend me ...
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cloud foundry intra-application communication
I have 3 applications running in a private vcap instance. One acts as a customer facing web-app, while the others are backend systems, one exposing data services over REST which the web-app consumes, ...
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is redis pub/sub realistic in php?
I'd like to use redis pub/sub in PHP, but I'm afraid PHP can't be the only tool: a subscriber need to be always callable, since php isn't built for running as a daemon, I can't trust it to reliably be ...
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Heroku to AWS Migration Advice
From what i've gathered, there are many solutions to my problem but i'd appreciate some suggestions on where to start. here's the stack we're running on heroku currently:
Rails on puma
mongoDB
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Technical term for services like Sandstorm.io
This isn't exactly a programming question but I thought this would still be the best community to find an answer for my question.
I'd like to know if there is a specific technical term that describes ...
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Best PAAS platform for play framework 2.1.
Trying to figure out which is the best platform for deploying play 2.1. I tried openshift diy cartrige, but it looks openshif diy cartridge is not production ready yet. I get disclaimer " This is an ...
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Why or when does an app need a server?
I have been searching for a proper answer to this question, have a bit of background in front end development, but with new concepts like SaaS, PaaS, etc. want to get information from experts out ...
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Long connection time with Azure Postgres
I have Azure Database for PostgreSQL service (PaaS). When I'm trying to query it with psql then even simple SELECT query from one table takes ~1.5s. When I'm in postgres console then there is no issue,...
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Can I host my own database in Commercetools platform?
It is possible in magento where I can set my inhouse database at localhost. Can I do the same with commercetools?
I do not like to share my data with commercetools, but I still want to use it.
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How to do mandatory fields in prismic.io CMS?
I'm using Prismic.io as a headless CMS and bringing content into my React front end. How do I set up a content type so that fields are mandatory?
Here's what I have so far...
{
"Main" : {
"uid"...
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