9. aPaas

Application platform as a service (aPaaS) is a cloud service that offers development and deployment environments for application services.

The following blueprints:

• redstone (aPaas details for this blueprint can be found under: redstone/puppet/modules/runtime_project/files/apaas)

include a CI/CD node with the CLIs necessary to interact with the following aPaas environments:

• Hewlett-Pacakard Helion Development Environment
• ActiveState Stackato
• Any vendor that supports CloudFoundry

The overall aPaas integration scenario is for a blueprint to include a node (OS depends on the aPaas vendor’s CLI OS support - almost all run on linux/Mac OSX) that will execute the CLIs to interact with their environment. More support for aPaas vendors can be easily added by simply installing on the CI/CD node the required CLIs via the blueprint’s orchestration mechanism.