I haven't used it personally, but do you mean something like OpenStack ( http://www.openstack.org )?
Openstack is a IaaS (infrastructure as a service, Heroku is a PaaS (platform as a service). The PaaS over openstack is openshift
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#12Parse was recently made OS https://github.com/ParsePlatform
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#13There is also Redhat's Openshift Origin, the Open-source, host-it-yourself version of their Openshift platform.
They've done a great job of documentation and on-boarding new people to try it out.
They have a nice set of ansible scripts or docker images which will get you up and running pretty quickly[1].
I currently run a lot of stuff in Azure, and there is a great deployment template to get your orgin cluster up and running here [2]
Underneath the hood it is just docker, kubernetes, and some other goodness. Color me super impressed with this.
Note, for something way, way, more simple I highly recomment Dokku [3]
[1] - https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible
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#14I've had a generally positive experience with deis but would recommend just using heroku unless you have the time to really get the deis setup right and keep it right. A system needs to be at least moderately complex before the time spent on deis starts paying dividends.
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#15There is also Redhat's Openshift Origin, the Open-source, host-it-yourself version of their Openshift platform. They've done a great job of documentation and on-boarding new people to try it out. They have a nice set of ansible scripts or docker images which will get you up and running pretty quickly[1]. I currently run a lot of stuff in Azure, and there is a great deployment template to get your orgin cluster up and…
Openshift is moving from a PaaS system to a CaaS(Container as a Service) system.
It might not be the best solution if you want a PaaS but it is certainly a good CaaS platform.
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#16Are all viable options based around Docker? Is there anything that uses plain LXC containers?
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#17"cloud platform" and "host locally" are contradictory. Do you mean hosting on your own hardware, a server colocated in a data center, or hosted in the cloud such as EC2??
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#18There is also Redhat's Openshift Origin, the Open-source, host-it-yourself version of their Openshift platform. They've done a great job of documentation and on-boarding new people to try it out. They have a nice set of ansible scripts or docker images which will get you up and running pretty quickly[1]. I currently run a lot of stuff in Azure, and there is a great deployment template to get your orgin cluster up and…
Openshift is moving from a PaaS system to a CaaS(Container as a Service) system. It might not be the best solution if you want a PaaS but it is certainly a good CaaS platform.
Are they really? If anything would they be expanding the scope to Also include more CaaS features.
It would also seem that their developer onbarding leads with all the push to deploy tutorials. And then cartridges.
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#19"cloud platform" and "host locally" are contradictory. Do you mean hosting on your own hardware, a server colocated in a data center, or hosted in the cloud such as EC2??
I think OP means something you can host yourself on a cloud box like DigitalOcean
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#20You also have http://rancher.com/ which makes it pretty easy and has deployment options on local hosts, bare metal or cloud providers (AWS, DO, Exoscale,...)