Hi, 

You may be interested by openruko <https://github.com/openruko>, an 
OpenSource Heroku clone written in nodejs.

Cheers
Romain

Le samedi 2 mars 2013 03:49:19 UTC+1, Tim Dickinson a écrit :
>
> CloudFoundry is a very nice peace of software and might just be best the 
> open-source paas systems. I have taken a lot of inspirations from 
> how cloudfoundry/appfog is built. The idea of the event system 
> that Raft uses comes from how cloudfoundry's system works. Having a mesh 
> like network or servers that can be used to host node applications. 
>
> Its hard to say that Raft has any advantage over cloudfoundry. The 
> only advantage's that raft has would only effect a node.js program 
> developer. The Raft's stack is written in node and its make to host 
> node applications. Any add-ons for raft would be written in node. So if you 
> where someone who is hosting 10, 20, 100+ node applications then Raft could 
> be a better fit.
>
> Some other thing that are nice is the one-line install of a PaaS system. 
> From starting the hardware to hosting an application is very easy.
>
> I would say Raft is more of a tool to the developer then a service.
>
> On Friday, March 1, 2013 2:28:28 AM UTC-5, Charlie Edward wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>> Feature StatusComment Distributed Event Systemcomplete The system used 
>>> to distribute event to all processesRouter completeThe router is in 
>>> working state. Over all seems to work well. SpawnercompleteWorking copy 
>>> of the spawn/spawner. All feature are in place Logger completeFull 
>>> package logging in real-time. StatscompleteLoad and memory usage for 
>>> each spawn. Deploy/SnapShot Server incompleteDeploy server creating 
>>> each package snapshot. API ServerincompleteREST 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.
>>> Command StatusComment hooks hub completeThe main event server hooks 
>>> router completestart the router process hooks spawn completestart the 
>>> spawn process hooks logger completestart the logger process 
>>> <https://github.com/MangoRaft/Raft#cli>Cli
>>>
>>> The comamnd-line program for managing packages hosted by raft
>>> Command StatusComment raft deloy incompleteDeploy 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.
>>> Addons StatusComment WebUIincompleteWebui will be the web console to 
>>> raft. Allowing users to manage their app from the web Emailer 
>>> incompleteEmail 
>>> addon for each package ffmpegincompleteVideo 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
>>>
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