AppScale vs Cloud Foundry

Overview

Cloud Foundry

Stacks188

Followers346

Votes5

AppScale

Stacks11

Followers29

Votes0

AppScale vs Cloud Foundry: What are the differences?

AppScale: An open source implementation of Google App Engine. Run your applications in any cloud- public, private or hybrid. AppScale is a platform that allows users to deploy applications developed using the Google App Engine APIs over Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine, Eucalyptus, Openstack, CloudStack, as well as KVM and VirtualBox; Cloud Foundry: Deploy and scale applications in seconds on your choice of private or public cloud. Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service (PaaS) that provides a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications.

AppScale and Cloud Foundry can be primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by AppScale are:

UI & Dashboard
Manage Apps, Machines, and Logs
Automated Data Persistence

On the other hand, Cloud Foundry provides the following key features:

Application and services centric lifecycle API
High performance dynamic routing
Buildpack support

AppScale and Cloud Foundry are both open source tools. It seems that AppScale with 2.39K GitHub stars and 273 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Cloud Foundry with 605 GitHub stars and 532 GitHub forks.

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Cloud Foundry	AppScale
Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service (PaaS) that provides a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications.	AppScale is a platform that allows users to deploy applications developed using the Google App Engine APIs over Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine, Eucalyptus, Openstack, CloudStack, as well as KVM and VirtualBox.
Application and services centric lifecycle API;High performance dynamic routing;Buildpack support;Data and web services brokers;Linux Container management;Role Based Access and Teams;Active application health management;Standards based user authentication and authorization;Integrated real time logging API;Multi-provider ecosystem	UI & Dashboard;Manage Apps, Machines, and Logs;Automated Data Persistence;Multinode Deployments;Data Backups;Remote Shell (view your app data)
Statistics
Stacks 188	Stacks 11
Followers 346	Followers 29
Votes 5	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Perfectly aligned with springboot 1 Application health management 1 Free service discovery (Eureka) 1 Free distributed tracing (zipkin)	No community feedback yet
Integrations
VMware vSphere Logentries Amazon EC2 OpenStack Papertrail Amazon VPC Splunk Cloud Sumo Logic	Google Compute Engine VirtualBox Apache CloudStack OpenStack SoftLayer Docker Google App Engine Amazon EC2 Rackspace Cloud Servers Eucalyptus

What are some alternatives to Cloud Foundry, AppScale?

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.

Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud is a polyglot cloud application platform. The service helps developers to build applications with many languages and services, with auto-scaling features and a true pay-as-you-go pricing model.

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.

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.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

Render

Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.

Hasura

An open source GraphQL engine that deploys instant, realtime GraphQL APIs on any Postgres database.

Cloud 66

Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with "server stuff". Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack, Laravel, GoLang, and more.

Jelastic

Jelastic is a Multi-Cloud DevOps PaaS for ISVs, telcos, service providers and enterprises needing to speed up development, reduce cost of IT infrastructure, improve uptime and security.

Dokku

It is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server of your choice. It helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from building to scaling.