Tag Archives: play
Add a Database to your own PaaS
This is the second part of our series on how to be your own PaaS provider using Dokku and RunAbove. The first part covered the basic installation and enabled us to deploy simple Play applications. In this part, we’ll deploy a more interesting application that uses a database.
Run your own PaaS with RunAbove and Dokku
Last time, we looked at how we can run a Play application on Open Shift. Open Shift offers small instances (512MB memory) for free, but if you need more memory, it quickly gets rather expensive. For 1GB, the hour costs you 5 cents (that’s about 36$ per month). That’s too much for my hobby projects, […]
Play 2.3 Applications on OpenShift
This is a quick how-to guide to get your Play 2.3 applications up and running on RedHat’s OpenShift PaaS. OpenShift unfortunately doesn’t support Play out of the box, and there are some pitfalls that can be quite annoying. Why OpenShift? As I said, OpenShift – contrary to many other PaaS providers like CloudBees or Heroku […]