Survey of Hosting Platforms aka Distributed OS

Let's consider hosting platforms as distributed OSes, that mediate 3 things:

1. Apps - code and data
2. Hardware
3. Users

What belongs on this page?

• "PaaS" and "serverless"

• We're leaving out IaaS, because it's too low level

  • AWS EC2 - Elastic Compute
  • GCE - Google Compute Engine
  • Azure

Open Source

• Dokku
  • Built on: Heroku Build Packs, Docker
• Kubernetes
  • Built on: Docker
• Cloud Foundry
  • what happened to this? Sponsored by VMWare
• https://tsuru.io/ - haven't heard of it

Older / Obsolete?

• RedShift
• Deis
• Flynn
• https://github.com/d2iq-archive/marathon - Marathon built on Apache Mesos

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• CoreOS - this was only part of a solution

Closed Source

• Google App Engine
• Heroku
  • Heroku Build Packs are Open Source

Links

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