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DevOp teams want PaaS service efficiency with customization
flexibility. Rather than fit development teams into a
one-size-fits-all platform box, teams desire to extend a PaaS foundation
with best-of-breed components, frameworks, and languages. While early
1.0 PaaS offerings (i.e. Google AppEngine, SalesForce.com) prescribed a
specific development model and framework set, next-generation PaaS
offers a polyglot PaaS and polyglot programming experience, delivering
the ability to mix-and-match application platform capabilities into an
customized application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) cloud.
To support a polyglot programming model, PaaS infrastructure must
decouple and separate PaaS foundational infrastructure, PaaS services,
and application platform components. A PaaS cartridge model
encapsulates application platform components and links them to PaaS
infrastructure components responsible for elastic scalability, resource
pooling, on-demand self-service, and metering. Vendors describe the
encapsulation wrapper as droplets (Cloud Fondry), dynos (Heroku), or
cartridges (RedHat OpenShift, WSO2 Stratos).
The WSO2 Stratos
2.0 approach maintains multi-tenant shared container isolation for WSO2
Carbon application platform components, while also offering standard
virtual machine and Linux container (LXC) isolation and tenancy for both
Carbon and non-carbon components. A cartridge architecture supports a
polyglot programming model that enables developers to mix-and-match
programming languages (e.g. PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Java), frameworks
(e.g. couchDb, MySQL, JEE), and application platform servers (e.g.
Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss) in the PaaS.
A demo ready Oracle VirtualBox image is available for quick and efficient evaluation, and the download version with LXC cartridges is available for a more detailed evaluation, and documentation to create your own cartridges is now available for review.
