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Deis vs Google App Engine: What are the differences?

What is Deis? Open Source PaaS that builds upon Docker and CoreOS to provide a lightweight PaaS with a Heroku-inspired workflow. Deis can deploy any application or service that can run inside a Docker container. In order to be scaled horizontally, applications must follow Heroku's 12-factor methodology and store state in external backing services.

What is Google App Engine? Build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. 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.

Deis and Google App Engine can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Deis are:

  • Deis can deploy any language or framework using a Dockerfile
  • If you don't have a Dockerfile, Deis includes Heroku buildpacks for Ruby, Python, Node.js, Java, Clojure, Scala, Play, PHP, Perl, Dart and Go.
  • Deis can be deployed on any system that supports CoreOS including your workstation, as well as most public clouds, private clouds and bare metal.

On the other hand, Google App Engine provides the following key features:

  • Zero to sixty: Scale your app automatically without worrying about managing machines.
  • Supercharged APIs: Supercharge your app with services such as Task Queue, XMPP, and Cloud SQL, all powered by the same infrastructure that powers the Google services you use every day.
  • You're in control: Manage your application with a simple, web-based dashboard allowing you to customize your app's performance.

"12-factor methodology" is the primary reason why developers consider Deis over the competitors, whereas "Easy to deploy" was stated as the key factor in picking Google App Engine.

Deis is an open source tool with 6.12K GitHub stars and 863 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Deis's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Deis
Pros of Google App Engine
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    12-factor methodology
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    Open source
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    Built on coreos
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    Built on Docker
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    Awesome team of people
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    Free
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    Backed by Docker
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    Apache 2.0 license
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    Easy to deploy
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    Auto scaling
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    Good free plan
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    Easy management
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    Scalability
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    Low cost
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    Comprehensive set of features
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    All services in one place
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    Simple scaling
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    Quick and reliable cloud servers
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    Granular Billing
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    Easy to develop and unit test
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    Monitoring gives comprehensive set of key indicators
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    Really easy to quickly bring up a full stack
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    Create APIs quickly with cloud endpoints
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    No Ops
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    Mostly up

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    No longer maintained
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    What is Deis?

    Deis can deploy any application or service that can run inside a Docker container. In order to be scaled horizontally, applications must follow Heroku's 12-factor methodology and store state in external backing services.

    What is 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.

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    What are some alternatives to Deis and Google App Engine?
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    Flynn lets you deploy apps with git push and containers. Developers can deploy any app to any cluster in seconds.
    Helm
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    The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
    Amazon EC2
    It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
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