Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

AppFog

7
24
+ 1
14
Empire

7
28
+ 1
4
Kontena

10
36
+ 1
0
Get Advice from developers at your company using StackShare Enterprise. Sign up for StackShare Enterprise.
Learn More
Pros of AppFog
Pros of Empire
Pros of Kontena
  • 4
    Allocate multiple instances to one app for free
  • 4
    The basic plan is free
  • 3
    Pricing by memory size
  • 2
    Great for startups
  • 1
    10 Free instances
  • 1
    12-factor methodology
  • 1
    Open source
  • 1
    BSD License
  • 1
    Easy deployment
    Be the first to leave a pro

    Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

    - No public GitHub repository available -

    What is AppFog?

    AppFog provides the infrastructure web developers need to build apps without worrying about IT tasks or having to wait days to get servers ready for writing code. AppFog’s web application technologies include PHP, NodeJS, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

    What is Empire?

    Empire is a control layer on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) that provides a Heroku like workflow. It conforms to a subset of the Heroku Platform API, which means you can use the same tools and processes that you use with Heroku, but with all the power of EC2 and Docker.

    What is Kontena?

    Kontena is an open source container orchestration tool that makes it easy to deploy and manage containerized applications on your own servers.

    Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

    What companies use AppFog?
    What companies use Empire?
    What companies use Kontena?

    Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

    What tools integrate with AppFog?
    What tools integrate with Empire?
    What tools integrate with Kontena?

    Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

    What are some alternatives to AppFog, Empire, and Kontena?
    Heroku
    Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
    Red Hat OpenShift
    OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
    Google App Engine
    Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
    Apache Camel
    An open source Java framework that focuses on making integration easier and more accessible to developers.
    Apollo
    Build a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing REST APIs, so you can ship new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.
    See all alternatives