[2.0] Hosting Options for Play Framework 2.+

[Samuel R]

Hi,

I am thinking of setting up a new project with Play 2.0, and am
exploring hosting options. My only constraint is that the hosting site
should be in Europe, which leaves out Heroku; and also playapps.net is
closing according to their web page. Also the service should be as
managed as possible.

I've found:
- Jelastic
- CloudControl

Jelastic supports Play 1.2.x out of the box, but not 2.0 ... do you
have any experiences of deploying and running Play 2.0 on these or
other European hosters ?

Thanks for feedback,
Samuel

[Bill]

Hello,

As far as i know, Jelastic still does not support Play 2.0 app's hosting. Beside Heroku, i'd like to inform you that i have successfully deployed my play 2.0 test apps on Redhat Open Shift & Cloudbees. However, there are things that i'd like to point out about them:

  - Openshift is still not ready for production phase. It supports PLay 2.0 app hosting through its DIY configuration. However, the DIY configuration does not support scaling more than 1 CPU.

  - Cloudbees, packages play 2.0 apps as a War (through Jenkins build process ) first before host it. However, when i added jasper report template files in my play 2.0 projects (*.jrxml), my apps could not find these files after being deployed to cloudbees while it could when it is running in my development machine. I'm still figuring out how to tackle this problem ( perhaps , someone in this forum have encountered this problem and would like to share the workarounds in here ). 

Here is the test apps where i deployed it on cloudbees : http://testplayextjs.xtremecodes.cloudbees.net/

Cheers,

[Ivan Meredith]

CloudBees now supports native deployments for Play20 apps.

https://github.com/CloudBees-community/sbt-cloudbees-play-plugin

or

https://github.com/playframework/Play20/wiki/Deploying-to-CloudBees

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[Justin Holmes]

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