Looks awesome. What is the advantage versus cloudfoundry, and other open source solutions?
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Tim Dickinson <[email protected]>wrote: > Raft - Open-Source PaaS > > The idea behind raft and mangoraft.com is to give the node community a > fully-featured Platform as a Service (PaaS). Raft gives you a provision of > CPU, memory, disk space and bandwidth. From this the sky's the limit in > what can be build. Sites and services ranging from the weekend projects to > large scale production sites are able to take advantage of raft. Full > instances of a UNIX system is available from with in the running > allocation. Each application is run in its own chroot jail. Keeping all > other applications sharing the system safe. > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#convenient>Convenient > > Deploy your application in under 30 seconds. Fast deploys mean even more > time to build and debug your applications. > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#scalable>Scalable > > Run more than one instance of your application. A global footprint is no > problem, run your application independent to any LaaS providers or even run > it on your own hardware. > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#distributed>Distributed > > To take advantage of today's cloud provider. raft has been built to run on > more then one server that is running in more than one data center. Raft > uses a distributed event system allowing you to run more than one instance > of each service. So if you wanted to host tens of thousands of your > favorite express app, raft can do it. > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#open-source>Open-source > > All the code is open source. If you would like to run your own copy of > raft you can. Even better then the git repo is that you can install it all > with one command. "npm install raft-hooks -g" this will install a program > called hooks. Take a look at "hooks -h" for help on how to use the client. > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#status>Status > > Lots of work is been done on Raft. If you would like to know more please > drop us a line! > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#installation>Installation > > Install raft > > $ npm install raft > > Install raft-hooks > > $ sudo npm install raft-hooks -g > > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#core>Core > > The core features of raft are a set of hooks that allow ease of adding > more Feature latter one. With a distributed process module adding and > removing part is no problem > FeatureStatusCommentDistributed Event SystemcompleteThe system used to > distribute event to all processesRoutercompleteThe router is in working > state. Over all seems to work well.SpawnercompleteWorking copy of the > spawn/spawner. All feature are in placeLoggercompleteFull package logging > in real-time.StatscompleteLoad and memory usage for each spawn.Deploy/SnapShot > ServerincompleteDeploy server creating each package snapshot.API Server > incompleteREST api server for managing user > packages<https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#hooks> > Hooks > > Raft-hooks are a set of command line programs for running raft. > CommandStatusCommenthooks hubcompleteThe main event serverhooks router > completestart the router processhooks spawncompletestart the spawn > processhooks > loggercompletestart the logger process<https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#cli> > Cli > > The comamnd-line program for managing packages hosted by raft > CommandStatusCommentraft deloyincompleteDeploy to > raft<https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#addons> > Addons > > Other hooks that could be added on latter. Any action could be an addons > to the system. > AddonsStatusCommentWebUIincompleteWebui will be the web console to raft. > Allowing users to manage their app from the webEmailerincompleteEmail > addon for each packageffmpegincompleteVideo encoding service / Image > resizeing > > The raft services are a set of hooks that make up the event system. It > consists of 2 modules that are on npm. The first is "raft" and the second > is "raft-hooks". Raft is the core components of the system as a whole. > Raft-hooks is a command program to run the event system. > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#the-hub>The hub > > The hub service is the event distributor for all other services. The hub > service is the first service that must start. The idea behind the hub to to > start it and forget it. You will never have to interact with the hub once > it has started. > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#router>Router > > The Router is used to proxy http and web-sockets to the corresponding > application. You can run more than one instance of the Router. The idea is > that the Router sit in front all other services and applications and proxy > from a URL to host:port. If you where to query test.mangoraft.com your > request would first go the the Router then be piped to the next application > port. The Router does not have to be on the same server your applications, > as long as the two processes can connect to one another thats all it take. > To deal with many hundreds of thousands of request you may run 5, 10, 25+ > instances of the Router. So that would be 25+ servers running an instance > each of the balanRoutercer. The Router uses the native node.js cluster API > to take full advantage of multicore processors. > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#spawn>Spawn > > The spawn is the bulk of the "hosting" system for raft. It controls the > starting and stopping of the application's. The spawn uses npm to install > all needed dependences. Once the dependences are install the spawn will > start up your application. Every application is built off the most basic > package.json. all that so required is the app name, domain, dependences, > start script and version. The package would be the same as npm's package > for a module just that it does not need a user value. You can run more than > one instance of each application. This allows for a true scalable node.js > environment. The spawn is capable of running your application with versions > of node "0.4.x>=". For every server you want to have hosting applications > you need the spawn service running. You can have endless count of servers > running the spawn. > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#snapshot>Snapshot > > The snapshot is all about keeping track of different version of your > applications. Every time you push or deploy to raft is creates a snapshot. > If ever you need to revert to an earlier version of your application you > would do so with the snapshots. > <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#logger>Logger > > The logger is used to keep track of all application stdout, stderr and npu > output's. You can watch logs in real-time giving you a better debugging > experience. By the end of the spawns life the stdout and stderr will be > stored in the storage object. > > I would love to get the input from the community about Raft. What you like > about it or what you might not. What thing would you want to see and > what features you this Raft can go without. > > GitHub: https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft > > Home: http://mangoraft.com > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. 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