Monday, December 19, 2011

Iron Foundry - Cloud Foundry for .NET

Hey all!

hammerI’ve been working on this open source project, Iron Foundry! Cloud Foundry is a open Platform-as-a-Service. Iron Foundry adds extensions to support .NET. This is a great system to allow publishing of web applications into the cloud (public or private). With this, you can create an application utilizing various technologies including Java, .NET, node.js, etc.

Developers can run their own instances of Iron Foundry in-house or with any service provider who supports it, finally giving them a truly open, interoperable .NET PaaS solution that can be run inside and outside the firewall. And because you can run your own instances of Iron Foundry, it’s easy to leverage it for a full dev, test/ QA, and staging environment before pushing to production. Operations teams now have the freedom to choose among a variety of service providers providing the same PaaS used in their development environments, enabling them to pick the one that meets their specific needs in areas such as security, compliance, availability, location, etc.

  • Build your app
  • Specify your URL and some configuration
  • Deploy to the Cloud
  • Browse to it

Anyhow, it’s a great system for developing web apps in the cloud. Check out more information at:
http://ironfoundry.org

Also, there’s a really great write up on the Visual Studio extensions that I helped build:

http://seroter.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/first-look-deploying-net-web-apps-to-cloud-foundry-via-iron-foundry/

Want more information or try it out? You can feel free to mail me.

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