> Galder,

> Ah hah!

> OpenShift is like Heroku... sorry, I'm slow.

> I've got my first app running: http://frog-bearfeeder.rhcloud.com/

> OpenShift is pretty neat!

> A couple of things:

>    - Is there any chance of using Nginx rather than Apache as the front
>    end? Apache doesn't deal well with lots of long polling requests.
>    - When I tried to use Scala 2.9.2 and Lift 2.5-M1, there were some
>    wacky runtime problems. Is Scala 2.9.1 and Lift 2.4 baked into Escalante?
>    - Is there a way to not take down the application during compilation?
>    Basically, it'd be cool if the app continued to run until the new version
>    was ready to deploy.
>    - How does OpenShift deal with session affinity?

> Anyway, I think what you've done is a wicked sweet thing and I'm looking
> forward to seeing how it evolves.

> Thanks,

> David

> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Galder Zamarreño <gal...@zamarreno.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:

>> On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:36:53 UTC, David Pollak wrote:

>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Galder Zamarreño <gal...@zamarreno.com
>>> > wrote:

>>>> David,

>>>> Thanks for the reply.

>>>> OpenShift markets itself as a PaaS where you don't have to worry about
>>>> the infrastructure itself, so tries to stay away from more traditional IaaS
>>>> environments such as EC2.

>>>> In fact, it's most likely OpenShift is using EC2 behind to provide you
>>>> with all you need.

>>>> Is there anything you miss from the OpenShift offer that makes you
>>>> wanna have an OpenShift AMI?

>>> Laziness. I'd like to try OpenShift, but am too lazy to do anything
>>> other than fire up an AMI and go.

>> Fair enough... I must admit that getting started with OpenShift is fairly
>> painless and you should be done in 5 mins :)

>>> I'll download fedora and try to create an OpenShift virtual machine
>>> locally.

>> Keep me posted on how that goes!

>>>> From what I've seen, you can already build your own OpenShift PaaS on
>>>> EC2, or any other environment following these instructions:
>>>> https://openshift.redhat.com/**community/wiki/build-your-own<https://openshift.redhat.com/community/wiki/build-your-own>

>>>> Your suggestion on having a ready to go AMI has also been raised, so
>>>> maybe you can comment there too:
>>>> https://openshift.redhat.com/**community/content/amazon-aws-**
>>>> ec2-ami-ready-to-go<https://openshift.redhat.com/community/content/amazon-aws-ec2-ami-rea...>

>>>> Hope this helps

>>>> Cheers,

>>>> On Monday, 29 October 2012 18:24:35 UTC, David Pollak wrote:

>>>>> Galder,

>>>>> This is indeed very cool. Is there an OpenShift AMI floating around
>>>>> Amazon EC2 so I can try booting an EC2 instance and deploying a Lift app?

>>>>> Thanks,

>>>>> David

>>>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Galder Zamarreño <
>>>>> gal...@zamarreno.com> wrote:

>>>>>>  Hi all,

>>>>>> A few weeks ago I was posting about Escalante, a new Scala app server
>>>>>> that we've built that comes with support for Lift applications.

>>>>>> Escalante vastly reduces size of Lift applications, making them
>>>>>> faster to upload, and reduces memory consumption.

>>>>>> So now you can also deploy Lift applications on top of Escalante to
>>>>>> Red Hat's OpenShift cloud environment. You can find all about it in my
>>>>>> latest blog post:
>>>>>> http://escalante.io/news/2012/****10/28/lift-on-openshift/<http://escalante.io/news/2012/10/28/lift-on-openshift/>

>>>>>> If you have any questions, ping me on #escalante IRC channel of
>>>>>> freenode, or post a question on StackOverflow with 'escalante' tag :)

>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Galder Zamarreño
>>>>>> gal...@redhat.com
>>>>>> twitter.com/galderz

>>>>>> Project Lead, Escalante
>>>>>> http://escalante.io

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