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What tools/stacks Moncaì will rely on?


On November, 11th, Moncaì has been announced.

The post describes the product as "a platform as a service(PAAS) cloud solution for .NET/Mono web applications" which would allow to "deploy your web applications with ease by using Git or Mercurial by simply issuing a push command" à la Heroku.

Beside this, very little is known about the supporting infrastructure.

  • Manos may be involved (tweet)
  • Maybe CouchDB could also be part through Ottoman API
  • It looks like Redis will also be used (tweet)

What have you been able to gather about the choosen tools (messaging, storage, ...) to support the project ?


Solution

  • Some informations are in this podcast.

    EDIT: major highlights from podcast:

    • deployment of ASP.NET (MVC) applications a lot easier
    • very close to what Heroku does, but for ASP.NET
    • hosted git or mercurial server for deployment
    • custom cloud infrastructure based on posix systems and mono
    • option of picking the runtime (mono 2.6 LTS for .NET 3.5 or mono 2.8 for .NET 4.0)
    • private beta - testing moncai with ~ 2k people
    • fractional computing and billing
    • free option for hobbyist and developers with low traffic
    • sandboxed security - each user have separate process for his stuff
    • you don't have to worry about load or scale
    • add-ons for various stuff (batch jobs, ssl, ...)
    • plans for ssh to customize the VPSs
    • you will be able to choose between various frameworks like ASP.NET (MVC), manos, ...