Red Hat beefs up OpenShift platform
An online service for building, hosting, and readily-scaling applications, OpenShift is akin to Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, and Cloud Foundry, the new open source offering from Red Hat-arch-rival VMware.
Uncloaked in May, Red Hat's service runs atop Amazon's EC2 infrastructure cloud, and is available in two different forms: the free OpenShift Express and the beefier OpenShift Flex, which is available as a free trial but eventually requires fees for Amazon usage.
According to Server Watch, OpenShift leverages technology from PaaS vendor Makara, which was acquired in November 2010.
Read Write Web reports that OpenShift's latest update also brings an improved REST API, which means that developers should be able to tap into OpenShift easier and integrate it with their IDEs, and tie in with build systems like Jenkins and Apache Ant.
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