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Stackato: Enterprise-Ready, Based on Cloud Foundry

ActiveState is the Cloud Foundry Community Lead for Python, but moreover, Stackato is the enterprise-ready, commercially-supported private PaaS version of Cloud Foundry. We have hardened the Cloud Foundry open source project and added several features to make the best private PaaS platform for organizations.

Stackato gives you the benefits of the public cloud--convenience, cost-efficiency--with the security control, and compliance of the private cloud. 

  Stackato Cloud
Foundry

Desktop Micro Cloud

✓

✓

Sandbox Test Environment

✓

✓

Languages

Java, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Scala, Erlang, Generic framework, Heroku Buildpacks (Clojure, Play!, PyPy, Go)

Java, Python (limited), PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Scala, Erlang
Technical Support Commercial, with SLAs and pro services (supporting open source software since 1997) Community-Driven (open source project)
Hypervisor/IaaS Support vSphere, EC2, OpenStack, KVM, Xen, HP CS, + others DIY
Client/IDE Komodo, web console, Stackato cli, Eclipse+STS, VMC Eclipse+STS, VMC
Security Secure multi-tenant Linux containers (using LXC) with resource-level control used for both staging and runtime Minimal -- Unix-based user permissions

Application Deployment
  • New applications
  • Migration of existing applications with dbshell, tunnel, and run commands
  • Applications with no web front-end
  • Admin manageable App Store built-in
  • New applications
  • Data tunneling via HTTP tunnel only
Application Life Cycle Management

Staging and Run-TimeHooks , extended app configuration file (.yml)  and run command support

  Simple app configuration file
User Management
  • Ability to group users and have group control over applications
  • Separate control of individual user and group limits
  • Individual users only
  • Only 2 limit types: "admin" and "everyone else"
PaaS Deployment Virtual Appliance, script-based cluster deployment DIY
PaaS Management

Web-based Management Console, on-system administrative tools

 None
Monitoring System & application monitoring (Java, Python, PHP, Ruby) with New Relic integration

Insight (Java Only)

Control over CPU, Memory Usage

✓

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Auto-Scaling

vSphere, EC2, OpenStack

None

If you're evaluating Stackato for your production environment, stackato-sales [at] activestate [dot] com (contact our sales team) to learn how Stackato Enterprise can help your business.