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Empire

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Kontena

10
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+ 1
0
Red Hat OpenShift

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Pros of Empire
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    12-factor methodology
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    Open source
  • 1
    BSD License
  • 1
    Easy deployment
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      Good free plan
    • 63
      Open Source
    • 47
      Easy setup
    • 43
      Nodejs support
    • 42
      Well documented
    • 32
      Custom domains
    • 28
      Mongodb support
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      Clean and simple architecture
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      PHP support
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      Customizable environments
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      Ability to run CRON jobs
    • 9
      Easier than Heroku for a WordPress blog
    • 8
      Easy deployment
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      PostgreSQL support
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      Autoscaling
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      Good balance between Heroku and AWS for flexibility
    • 5
      Free, Easy Setup, Lot of Gear or D.I.Y Gear
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      Shell access to gears
    • 3
      Great Support
    • 3
      High Security
    • 3
      Logging & Metrics
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      Cloud Agnostic
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      Runs Anywhere - AWS, GCP, Azure
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      No credit card needed
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      Because it is easy to manage
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      Secure
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      Meteor support
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      Overly complicated and over engineered in majority of e
    • 2
      Golang support
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      Its free and offer custom domain usage
    • 1
      Autoscaling at a good price point
    • 1
      Easy setup and great customer support
    • 1
      MultiCloud
    • 1
      Great free plan with excellent support
    • 1
      This is the only free one among the three as of today

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    Cons of Empire
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    Cons of Red Hat OpenShift
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          Decisions are made for you, limiting your options
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          License cost
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          Behind, sometimes severely, the upstreams

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        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.

        What is 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.

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