Engine Yard Cloud vs tsuru: What are the differences?

What is Engine Yard Cloud? Deploy and scale Rails applications in the cloud. The Engine Yard Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a product family that leverages open source technologies to orchestrate and automate the configuration, deployment and management of applications on multiple infrastructures.

What is tsuru? Extensible and open source Platform as a Service software. tsuru is an open source polyglot cloud application platform (PaaS). With tsuru, you don’t need to think about servers at all. You can write apps in the programming language of your choice, back it with add-on resources such as SQL and NoSQL databases, memcached, redis, and many others. You manage your app using the tsuru command-line tool and you deploy code using the Git revision control system, all running on the tsuru infrastructure.

Engine Yard Cloud and tsuru belong to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Engine Yard Cloud are:

• Dedicated, secure, commercial-grade platform that increases agility
• Focus on your code - not on operations or platform maintenance
• Scale cloud applications and infrastructure rapidly

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

• Fast and secure. The entire process is really simple with no special tools needed, just a simple git push.
• Scaling in Tsuru is completely painless. Just add a unit and Tsuru will take care of everything else.
• Tsuru is built to be extensible. Through services you can provide anything your application needs.

"Great customer support" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Engine Yard Cloud, while over 4 developers mention "Very receptive to contributions" as the leading cause for choosing tsuru.

tsuru is an open source tool with 3.14K GitHub stars and 421 GitHub forks. Here's a link to tsuru's open source repository on GitHub.