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Red Hat OpenShift vs Paz: What are the differences?
What is Red Hat OpenShift? Red Hat's free Platform as a Service (PaaS) for hosting Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Node.js, and Perl apps. OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
What is Paz? A Simple Docker PaaS Written in Node.js. A pluggable in-house service platform with a PaaS-like workflow, built on Docker, CoreOS, Etcd and Fleet.
Red Hat OpenShift and Paz can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.
Some of the features offered by Red Hat OpenShift are:
- Built-in support for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java (the standard in today's Enterprise)
- OpenShift is extensible with a customizable cartridge functionality that allows developers to add any other language they wish. We've seen everything from Clojure to Cobol running on OpenShift.
- OpenShift supports frameworks ranging from Spring, to Rails, to Play
On the other hand, Paz provides the following key features:
- A web front-end to CoreOS' Fleet with a PaaS-like workflow
- Like a clustered/multi-host Dokku
- Beautiful web UI
Red Hat OpenShift and Paz are both open source tools. Red Hat OpenShift with 911 GitHub stars and 562 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Paz with 6 GitHub stars and 4 GitHub forks.
Pros of Paz
Pros of Red Hat OpenShift
- Good free plan99
- Open Source63
- Easy setup47
- Nodejs support43
- Well documented42
- Custom domains32
- Mongodb support28
- Clean and simple architecture27
- PHP support25
- Customizable environments21
- Ability to run CRON jobs11
- Easier than Heroku for a WordPress blog9
- Easy deployment8
- PostgreSQL support7
- Autoscaling7
- Good balance between Heroku and AWS for flexibility7
- Free, Easy Setup, Lot of Gear or D.I.Y Gear5
- Shell access to gears4
- Great Support3
- High Security3
- Logging & Metrics3
- Cloud Agnostic2
- Runs Anywhere - AWS, GCP, Azure2
- No credit card needed2
- Because it is easy to manage2
- Secure2
- Meteor support2
- Overly complicated and over engineered in majority of e2
- Golang support2
- Its free and offer custom domain usage2
- Autoscaling at a good price point1
- Easy setup and great customer support1
- MultiCloud1
- Great free plan with excellent support1
- This is the only free one among the three as of today1
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Cons of Paz
Cons of Red Hat OpenShift
- Decisions are made for you, limiting your options2
- License cost2
- Behind, sometimes severely, the upstreams1
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