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Google App Engine vs OpenShift: What are the differences?

# Introduction

Google App Engine and OpenShift are both Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions that offer cloud services to developers for building, deploying, and scaling applications. Despite serving a similar purpose, they have key differences that developers should consider before choosing one over the other.

1. **Deployment Flexibility**: Google App Engine offers a fully managed platform where developers can deploy their applications, and Google takes care of the underlying infrastructure. On the other hand, OpenShift provides more deployment flexibility by allowing users to choose between deploying applications on their own infrastructure, public cloud, or hybrid cloud environments.

2. **Programming Language Support**: Google App Engine has better support for popular programming languages like Python, Java, Go, Node.js, and Ruby. In contrast, OpenShift supports a broader range of programming languages, including Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js, and Perl, giving developers more options in choosing the right language for their applications.

3. **Pricing Model**: Google App Engine charges users based on the resources consumed by their applications, including computing power, storage, and network usage. OpenShift, on the other hand, offers a freemium pricing model, allowing users to start for free and then pay for additional features and resources as needed, making it a more cost-effective option for startups and small businesses.

4. **Container Orchestration**: OpenShift is built on top of Kubernetes, an open-source container orchestration platform, which provides advanced container management features like auto-scaling, self-healing, and service discovery. Google App Engine, while providing some container orchestration capabilities, lags behind OpenShift in terms of flexibility and control over containerized applications.

5. **Community Support**: OpenShift has a larger and more vibrant community compared to Google App Engine, providing developers with access to a wealth of resources, tutorials, and community-driven support forums. This makes OpenShift a more attractive option for developers looking to leverage community-driven knowledge and expertise in building and managing cloud-native applications.

6. **Integration with CI/CD tools**: OpenShift provides seamless integration with popular Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, and CircleCI, enabling developers to automate the build, test, and deployment processes of their applications. While Google App Engine also supports CI/CD pipelines, OpenShift offers more extensive integration options, giving developers greater flexibility in setting up their automated workflows.

In Summary, Google App Engine and OpenShift differ in terms of deployment flexibility, programming language support, pricing model, container orchestration, community support, and integration with CI/CD tools, making them suitable for different use cases based on developers' requirements.
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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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    Good free plan
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    Open Source
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    Easy setup
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    Nodejs support
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    Well documented
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    Custom domains
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    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
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    Easier than Heroku for a WordPress blog
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    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
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    Free, Easy Setup, Lot of Gear or D.I.Y Gear
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    Shell access to gears
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    Great Support
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    High Security
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    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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    Its free and offer custom domain usage
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    Autoscaling at a good price point
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    Easy setup and great customer support
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    Great free plan with excellent support
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    This is the only free one among the three as of today

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    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.

    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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    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.
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    AWS Lambda
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    Kubernetes
    Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
    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.
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