This article introduces the Cloudbees Paas (Platform as a Service) offering.
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The maaS resides within the space between Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The latter delivers basic network, storage and compute/processing capabilities as standardised, scalable service offerings. SaaS delivers software capabilities as online Web applications and Web services.
maaS offerings often support DevOp practices, which include self-service, automated provisioning, continuous integration and continuous delivery. With maaS, the team can see whether an application is working, broken or staged, and so on—across the entire application lifecycle. Apart from that, maaS provides: On-demand self-service (service catalogues, incremental DevTest) RDSLG HODVWLFLWy (SURvLVLRQLQJ, GH-SURvLVLRQLQJ, flHxLELOLWy and scalability) oesource pooling (platform environments commonly pool memory, code libraries, database connections; multitenancy, resource utilisation) Measured services (monitoring, metering, billing, etc). Usage is monitored, and the system generates bills based on the charging model. ,Q WhH QHxW WhUHH WR fivH yHDUV, PDDS SURvLGHUV wLOO EH capable of providing comprehensive offerings that are not dedicated to a single language. provide natural isolation for gava applications, allowing multiple developers to deploy applications in the same infrastructure. Google App bngine was the lone maaS provider for gava developers. Fortunately, the scenario is changing; it makes sense, since gava developers represent one of the biggest developer communities in the world. In the past two years or so, several commercial providers have entered the gava maaS space: CloudBees Amazon blastic Beanstalk CloudSwing Cloud Foundry Google App bngine Heroku oed Hat OpenShift