ElasticBox vs OpenShift: What are the differences?

ElasticBox: Develop, deploy and manage applications on any cloud. Configure and deploy applications using CM tools like Docker, Chef, and Puppet. Your application is fully mobile across all major cloud environments because it’s decoupled from underlying cloud infrastructure; OpenShift: Red Hat's free Platform as a Service (PaaS) for hosting Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Node.js, and Perl apps. 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.

ElasticBox and OpenShift are primarily classified as "Deployment as a Service" and "Platform as a Service" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by ElasticBox are:

• deployment
• development, instance management, collaboration
• environment management

On the other hand, OpenShift provides the following key features:

• Built-in support for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java (the standard in today's Enterprise)
• OpenShift is extensible with a customizable cartridge functionality that allows developers to add any other language they wish. We've seen everything from Clojure to Cobol running on OpenShift.
• OpenShift supports frameworks ranging from Spring, to Rails, to Play

OpenShift is an open source tool with 915 GitHub stars and 563 GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenShift's open source repository on GitHub.