Questions tagged [paas]

paas is short for Platform-as-a-service, a category of cloud-centric services.

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage Web applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure

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CloudBees and Custom Error Pages

Does CloudBees allow you to define custom error pages beyond what you can to with a traditional Java web app (via web.xml)? For instance, if a CloudBees app-cell instance goes down due to infrastructure issues, is there a type of exception it will…
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Application Session Stores on CloudBees

I'm trying to fully understand when/how to use CloudBees' notion of application session stores. After reading that article, my understanding of them is that they provide a way to make multiple instances of your appserver share persistent session…
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CloudBees Service Level Agreement(s) and Capabilities Service

I have been comparing Java PaaSes carefully and am really starting to like CloudBees. I only have one big concern with them, and that is their SLA/uptime. After scouring through all of their documentation, I can only find one paper they offer on…
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What is the AWS Elastic Beanstalk CPU cap on the Free Tier?

I have a web app that will definitely be a low-traffic app (less than a few dozen hits per day), but when it does get a "hit" (the user actually has to kick off an action), it wakes up and does some heavy-duty number crunching (very CPU-intensiive)…
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Cross-Platform API for PaaS vendors?

Are there any efforts or products out there that aim at a generic API for PaaS vendors? Similar to cross-platform APIs for IaaS offerings like Delta Cloud, DMTF Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI), Simple Cloud, OCCI, ...
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restricting access on PAAS

I have a lab setup in office where people work in a development environment that is hosted on a Cloud PAAS (like openshift or cloudbees). The developers connect to the cloud git repository using SSH connection. They can easily take the SSH key to…
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Does cloudbees RUN@cloud bill by the hour or by the minute?

For example, if I am running an app and it scales out to 5 servers for just 10 minutes, do I pay for 5 servers for 10 minutes or 5 for the whole hour?
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Why is chunked transfer encoding not allowed to web applications running in CloudBees run@cloud?

I'm using an application that sends SOAP requests (HTTP POST) to my application running in CloudBees PaaS (run@cloud). The SOAP sender application gets the following error from the server: Transport error: 411 Error: Length Required. This means that…
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Can't add Heroku scheduler add-on

In my Rails app, I have a rake task that I want to run periodically. When I try to add the Heroku scheduler add-on to my app, I get this error: "Could not create resource with vendor, please try again later" This happens both through the web…
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Application hosted on AppHarbor, how can I save uploaded images?

AppHarbor (like Heroku) doesn't allow you to save uploaded files or images. I need to offload this somewhere and I have no idea what services exist for this purpose. I've looked into FilePicker.io but they display a tacky branding image in their…
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Deploy an app privately to Heroku

Our current platform provider allows us to set deployed apps to private, which protects access to an app behind a log-in screen. This is great for deploying development versions of our website behind a wall for testing on the internet. Is there a…
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Cloud Placement Logic

I am PaaS/IaaS developer.I am trying to bring in new algorithm to design placement login or resource management logic.Eg:I am creating instance of linux for the user I want to consider memory cpu usage heapsize all this factors and design my…
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How to reliably determine which PaaS is my project running on?

I have a small project that I want to deploy to both Heroku and OpenShift, to try things out on both platforms. I'm using Python/Django So I want to take advantage of the dynamic import feature to define settings per environment, maintaining a…
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MySQL on Cloud foundry is emptied sometimes

I'd like to ask about database behavior on CloudFoundry service. I'm using Spring and vmc as my deploying command line helper. When I deploy an application and bind a service (in my case MySQL), user can add data to my service and those informations…
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Free IaaS for development with full access control? (like EC2)

I am looking for a "free" IaaS service as an alternative to EC2 which will let me SSH into a system with full user permissions (create/delete files, install services, libraries and applications from the repository). Tried OpenShift but ended up…
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