ActiveState today announced the release of Stackato
3.4, with an updated free Micro
Cloud license enabling Stackato clusters using up to 20GB of RAM. Stackato 3.4
opens up accessibility for IT Ops to leverage scalability, high availability
and load balancing of applications in production, free of charge. Access to
free clustering with Stackato enables a more accurate assessment of how apps
can perform in a production environment and fosters greater accessibility for
more Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) users to turn ideas into problem-solving
commercial applications.
ActiveState's Stackato is the world's leading independent Cloud
Foundry distribution. The history of the Company has been established with
seventeen years of commercial success and an ongoing commitment to the open
source dynamic language and cloud communities. ActiveState serves the needs of
customers for velocity in development, agility, and portability across any
cloud environment: public, on-premises or hybrid. Stackato enables the
development of apps in any language, automatically configures the language
runtimes and web frameworks, and provides a best in class dashboard with
analytics and social monitoring tools. ActiveState's client base continues to
grow with new Stackato customers.
"By implementing Stackato for our Cloud Foundry deployments,
the team is able to focus on other critical infrastructure and application
development priorities. Stackato has proven to be stable and the support we've
received from the ActiveState team has been terrific," said Bob Wise,
Chief Innovation Officer, MTN Communications.
"Stackato just recently won Gold, for best Platform-as-a-Service
and we thank Network Products Guide for recognizing ActiveState at the 9th Annual 2014 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards. It's especially thanks to our team's talent, experience, and
cloud computing expertise, that we're leading with Stackato, growing with new
top hires and equipped to serve and support MTN Communications and all our
enterprise clients," said Bart Copeland, President and CEO, ActiveState.
"Stackato harnesses proven open source components from Cloud
Foundry, Docker, and others. Our team gains insights on how to further enhance
Stackato through conversations with IT operations and development communities,
along with our global enterprise clients. We benefit from this dialogue and
want to give back. One of our initiatives, the ActiveState
Education Partner Program equips
colleges and universities with access to Stackato. Today's announcement: Free
access to the Stackato 20GB Cluster in production, is our most significant
initiative to help support the breakdown of global accessibility barriers to
technical innovation," added Copeland.
"The possibilities and opportunities with applications running on
Stackato are as varied as our clients' focus areas. But, when getting started
to build apps, not everyone has access to starting capital and IT automation
with an application platform. Ideas become identified as commercially viable
through assessment and testing. Stackato 3.4 is breaking new ground by enabling
free access to clustering up to 20GB RAM to test and leverage scalability, high
availability and load balancing, along with access to use the apps in
production," said Jeff Hobbs, CTO and VP, Engineering, ActiveState.
Stackato 3.4 Highlights
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Stackato 20GB
Cluster: Access to build a Stackato
Cluster for free with 20GB of memory available for use in a production
environment or internally.
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Application
Rollback and Versioning: Ability to
revert to a prior version; safety net for developers when promoting a newer
version of an application; zero application downtime when deploying a newer
version or rolling back.
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Cloud Foundry
Upstream Merge: These updates include
gnatsd, services v2, buildpack management, buildpack caching and more.
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User Management
and Governance Enhancements: Provide the
ability to see when Stackato users last logged in, and whether users have ever
accessed the system.
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Quota Usage
Dashboard and Enhanced Monitoring: Enables
further control and monitoring of applications with enhancements to Logyard, quota
usage dashboard and notifications about the latest Stackato updates.
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Sentinel: Enhanced system upgrades functionality.
As with all iterations of Stackato, ActiveState
has completed a Cloud Foundry upstream merge. Now, any buildpack that supports offline
assets can be used by Stackato, installed on the system and configured for
priority order by the administrators. Stackato 3.4 also adds a brand new
feature that developers have been asking for most of all: Application rollback
and versioning. Developers can now jump back in time to a previous version of
their app. Then, when a new version of their app is deployed, Stackato phases
over to the new version from the old version. This is done by bringing down old
version instances as new version instances come up. The result is zero downtime
which is critical for ActiveState clients and the robustness of their systems.