ActiveState's Stackato private PaaS platform (http://www.activestate.com/stackato) has support for Heroku buildpacks to deploy (http://docs.stackato.com/deploy/buildpack.html), as well as the usual options for polyglot app deployments (it also has a 100% compatible Cloud Foundry API). This is useful when you want portability (deploy on a PaaS that you have full control over).
Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything
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Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything
#12I'm a bit surprised there isn't a buildpack for PHP. It seems like there would be a demand, since PHP it so popular (I know I would definitely use it). I wonder if it's because modern PHP apps (such as Symfony) have some external dependencies (such as on the APC cache).
I've heard good things about http://www.appfog.com/ who used to specialize in heroku-esque PHP deployments. Perhaps they'd be worth checking out.
Their site seems to be down... see http://appfog.com/products/phpfog/pricing/
Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything
#13I'm a bit surprised there isn't a buildpack for PHP. It seems like there would be a demand, since PHP it so popular (I know I would definitely use it). I wonder if it's because modern PHP apps (such as Symfony) have some external dependencies (such as on the APC cache).
Yes, you have to love the myopia and revisionist definition of the statement "Run and scale any type of app. Run any web or background process with any web framework or worker type. "
Really Heroku? Any web framework? I guess PHP and ASP.NET aren't web frameworks any longer.
Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything
#14I wonder if it's possible to hook this up to something like Vagrant http://vagrantup.com to use a buildpack for local development and easily install all the required dependencies.
Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything
#15I wonder if it's possible to hook this up to something like Vagrant http://vagrantup.com to use a buildpack for local development and easily install all the required dependencies.
If you want to use buildpacks locally, check out Mason: https://github.com/ddollar/mason
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#16I wonder if it's possible to hook this up to something like Vagrant http://vagrantup.com to use a buildpack for local development and easily install all the required dependencies.
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Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything
#17I'm a bit surprised there isn't a buildpack for PHP. It seems like there would be a demand, since PHP it so popular (I know I would definitely use it). I wonder if it's because modern PHP apps (such as Symfony) have some external dependencies (such as on the APC cache).
Yes, you have to love the myopia and revisionist definition of the statement "Run and scale any type of app. Run any web or background process with any web framework or worker type. " Really Heroku? Any web framework? I guess PHP and ASP.NET aren't web frameworks any longer.
Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything
#18I wonder if it's possible to hook this up to something like Vagrant http://vagrantup.com to use a buildpack for local development and easily install all the required dependencies.
If you want to use buildpacks locally, check out Mason: https://github.com/ddollar/mason
Ooh, nice -- thanks for the pointer.
Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything
#19Does anyone have any insight into why Google App Engine has not taken this route? Are there technical limitations within Google's infrastructure that would limit it?
Re: Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything
#20I'd like to point out a Common Lisp buildpack. I've used a fork of it and it's pretty spiffy. (Now if I only knew a simple app I could give people. :-) ) https://github.com/mtravers/heroku-buildpack-cl
That's awesome - thanks for pointing it out.
I've only poked around Heroku a bit with basic applications and the standard stacks (Python w/ Flask, etc.), but I think I'll look into what would be required to create a buildpack for Racket.
That is, if someone hasn't already beaten me to it...
EDIT: As figures, it already exists[1]; I'll toy around with it and test it out before suggesting they add it to the list.