ZK on PaaS Clouds: Heroku and OpenShift Express
Vincent Jian, Engineer, Potix Corporation
January 2, 2012
ZK5+
This page is under construction, so we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the content!
PaaS Cloud
PaaS Cloud means Platform as a Service on Cloud, here the Platform is leased application/database capacity. For more accurate definition, refer to Wikipedia. Here we will introduce how to running ZK application on Heroku and OpenShift Express.
Heroku
Heroku currently support six languages: Ruby, Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure and Python cloud PaaS. It also provides a lot of add-on, such as Heroku Scheduler, ClearDB MySQL Database, NoSql related database, and etc. for developer to integrate them into their application.
OpenShift Express
OpenShift is a free, auto-scaling platform-as-a-service for Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl and Python applications provided by Ret Hat. It also supports MySQL, MySQLi, PDO MySQL, PDO SQLite, and Amazon-RDS database.
Running ZK on Heroku & OpenShift Express
Here we can see the flow chart first.
Both Heroku and OpenShift provides the concept to help us deploy applications easily and no need to concerns the hardware and software that can save a lot of time and cost. Refer to Heroku installation guide and OpenShift installation guide for more detailed steps.
Conclusion
Comments
| Copyright © Potix Corporation. This article is licensed under GNU Free Documentation License. |