What is AppScale?
AppScale is a platform that allows users to deploy applications developed using the Google App Engine APIs over Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine, Eucalyptus, Openstack, CloudStack, as well as KVM and VirtualBox.
AppScale is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
AppScale is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to AppScale's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses AppScale?
Companies
Developers
11 developers on StackShare have stated that they use AppScale.
AppScale Integrations
Docker, Amazon EC2, VirtualBox, Google Compute Engine, and Google App Engine are some of the popular tools that integrate with AppScale. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with AppScale.
AppScale's Features
- UI & Dashboard
- Manage Apps, Machines, and Logs
- Automated Data Persistence
- Multinode Deployments
- Data Backups
- Remote Shell (view your app data)
AppScale Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to AppScale?
Google App Engine
Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
