What is RightScale?
Automation is the core of RightScale, freeing you to run efficient, scalable, and highly-available applications. Our multi-cloud integration enables you to choose your own clouds, providing freedom to work with any vendor in a rapidly changing market. And rest assured knowing that you have visibility and control over all of your resources in one place. To take advantage of best practices, we encourage you to tap into cloud expertise provided by our service, support, and partner networks when building and managing your infrastructure.
RightScale is a tool in the Cloud Management category of a tech stack.
Who uses RightScale?
Companies
7 companies reportedly use RightScale in their tech stacks, including Zynga, Rovio, and SignUp.
Developers
12 developers on StackShare have stated that they use RightScale.
RightScale Integrations
New Relic, Google Compute Engine, Papertrail, AppDynamics, and LogicMonitor are some of the popular tools that integrate with RightScale. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with RightScale.
RightScale's Features
- Supports: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datapipe, Google Cloud Platform, HP Cloud, IDCF — Yahoo! Japan, Rackspace, SoftLayer, Windows Azure, CloudStack, OpenStack
- Access, manage, and configure all of your resources — compute, networking, and storage — across all of your clouds.
- See and manipulate all of your cloud servers in one place.
- Configure your networking resources such as IP addresses, content delivery networks, firewalls, and virtual private networks. Manage block storage volumes and object stores to enable web serving, content delivery, persistent data storage, and backups.
- Persistence in a non-persistent cloud
- Tag and SSH into servers
- Logically group servers together
- Easily view complex environments
- Cloud resources: Provision, configure, edit, and decommission.
- Monitoring: Track and graph custom metrics in the dashboard or export to your own systems.
- Auditing: Track and export audit logs.
- Provisioning: Manage accounts, users, and permissions.
- Build upon MultiCloud Images
- Configure dynamically
- Tune with input variables
- Inherit preferences or set at launch
- Store in your configuration library
- Track and control versions
- Find differences between configurations
- Integrate with revision control systems
- RightScale MultiCloud Marketplace offers pre-built cloud ServerTemplates, scripts, and architectures published by RightScale, our partners, and our users.
- Keep tabs on your environment’s health with more than 80 built-in server, volume, database, and application monitors.
- Create custom views on the Dashboard with QuickMonitoring and Widgets.
- Manage an entire operations team with user authentication and permission controls. Assign roles by user and account to control administrative, billing, monitoring, publishing, and operational tasks.
RightScale Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to RightScale?
Scalr
Scalr is a remote state & operations backend for Terraform with access controls, policy as code, and many quality of life features.
Cloudability
Cloudability aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
CloudCheckr
CloudCheckr provides otherwise unavailable visibility and analytics to remove the complexity from AWS usage. Our users quickly and efficiently gain control of their deployment, reduce costs, and optimize infrastructure performance.
Morpheus
Morpheus is a cloud application management and orchestration platform that works on any cloud or infrastructure, from AWS to bare metal. Enjoy complete cloud freedom with Morpheus.
