Engine Yard, the leading cloud orchestration platform, today
announced that it has acquired OpDemand, the developer of Deis, the
first open source application platform purpose-built for Docker. With
the addition of OpDemand, Engine Yard can offer customers more
flexibility in application languages. The company will be able to
provide full stack support for both Docker containers in public and
private clouds, as well as traditional applications running on Amazon
Web Services (AWS).
“Engine Yard is well known for its world-class ability to monitor,
measure and support its clients’ application environments on AWS. We
enable thousands of developers to create and improve their apps without
the distractions of dealing with operational or platform management
issues,” said Beau Vrolyk, CEO of Engine Yard. “By bringing OpDemand
into the Engine Yard family, we have expanded our offerings to include
Docker containers running on both AWS and within our clients’ private
infrastructure.”
Deis builds upon Docker and CoreOS to provide a next-generation
Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on public clouds, private clouds
or bare metal. Deis is designed to run microservices, service-oriented
architectures and other applications that follow best practices for
distributed systems. Deis curates applications as Docker images and
then manages the orchestration of containers across a cluster of CoreOS
machines, streamlining the deployment and management of modern,
distributed applications.
“Engine Yard has a long history of supporting open source and helping
developers adopt the latest in software best practices,” said Gabriel
Monroy, CTO of OpDemand. “We are thrilled to be joining forces with a
company that shares our vision of an open, composable platform. With
the support of Engine Yard, we will accelerate our open source efforts
and ensure Deis remains the best way to deploy and manage distributed
applications in production.” Monroy and Joshua Schnell, the founders of
OpDemand, will join Engine Yard. Monroy was named Engine Yard’s CTO,
while Schnell will serve as the vice president of Business Development.
All other employees of OpDemand will join the Engine Yard team and
continue to support the open source Deis project. Details of the
transaction were not released.