Summer is almost here and it was really the time to clean up my blog a bit. Now there is a much more readable theme and all the CityDeal hamburger campaigns are gone. Hopefully nobody will be missing those?
I’ve been writing already about deploying applications instead of virtual machines and how I would like to move away from the machine instance and to a some kind of a service where you could select a system and the service would deploy and manage the needed computing resources. It now seems like this is starting to become a reality as there are providers like DotCloud and PHP Fog who take care of the infra while the customer just deploys the code.
I requested a beta invite to DotCloud which in contrary to PHP Fog is somewhat more multipurpose with other services than the PHP only. Actually, currently they have java, mysql, nodejs, perl, php, php-worker, postgresql, python, python-worker, rabbitmq, redis, ruby, ruby-worker, smtp, static as the deployment options. They also have some nice tutorials about how to use the system. The system is operated mostly locally from CLI and the code is pushed to dotcloud which seems like a nice way to do it as it is analogous to for example editing files locally and then using FTP to transfer the files to a web server.
As a test run, I went with installing WordPress as there is a good tutorial for that and only a few minutes later I had a running blog in DotCloud. I’m really liking this!
Tags: deployment, dotcloud
