Tsuru - open source platform as a service (written in Go)

This is a good occasion to read the source code of a non-trivial piece of Go code. The documentation of the project seems rather sparse, but at least, the app has readable tests.<p>That said, if you are looking for an open-source platform as a service, OpenShift, or as others mentioned, CloudFoundry are more mature options.

Can someone explain how this (or other tools like this?) work? How do they install services, ensure they start up, handle upgrades, etc? I am utterly confused by all these PaaSaaS apps.

This is really interesting. It appears to be a lot easier to get started with than CloudFoundry, but it is difficult to tell at this point how well it compares. Very cool none-the-less!

Confused me with Tsuru Capital [1][2], a trading company that uses Haskell as their main programming language.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.tsurucapital.com/en/jobs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tsurucapital.com/en/jobs.html</a> [2] <a href="http://tomschrijvers.blogspot.ca/2012/12/haskell-tsuru-capital.html" rel="nofollow">http://tomschrijvers.blogspot.ca/2012/12/haskell-tsuru-capit...</a>

I don't get it. I'd understand more if there was a service being sold or if they said you could use it to set up your own. Can anyone from the project explain the what, why, and where of it all?

Loving all this Go news lately.

Based on juju, so i assume you can use all the various charms that juju allows for.. <a href="http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise" rel="nofollow">http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise</a>

I always like seeing people use beanstalkd. It's a great bit of software which seems to have been largely overshadowed by redis these days, which is a shame.

I'd be interested in seeing an automatic deploy script for this service to teraform a new dedicated server instance.

In Japanese, "tsuru" can refer to a type of crane, which is likely related to the origami crane on the page.<p>Depending on the kanji, it might also be a few different verbs:<p>吊る: to hang; to suspend (something from something); to be hanged (by the neck)<p>釣る: to fish; to angle; to catch;<p>攣る: to cramp; to be cramped; to contract

Another interesting project, Appscale (<a href="https://github.com/AppScale" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AppScale</a>) from UCSB, is a GoogleAppEngine PaaS clone

why does every such service forces you to use git?<p>git is not a deploy tool!!

How does this compare to CloudFoundry or OpenShift? I guess they all try to solve the same problem, but I'm really interested..

Will that include addons, for instance a mobile backend-as-a-service, Parse style?

Is this a parody?<p>What actual platform is it?

Globo is the media monopolist of Brazil, in case you don't know...<p>it runs most major print and music publishers, dominates the TV space and, for good or bad, is picking the best technologists in Brazil and dominating news, sports and some vanity entertainment of the web here.<p>While other corps are slacking they're doubling down on hiring the Agile, Ruby, Python, Go and etc guys most `traditional` techie companies here ignore and are probably making the other players eat dust in doing so..

A pile of buzzwords, a funny sounding name that's fun to say, and "written in go" to get some HN love.<p>Yawn. Wake me up when they do something Heroku/CloudFoundry/Appfog/Ironfoundry etc aren't doing.

This is just awesome. This is what the web needed. Globo.com will be the next Google, keep an eye on it.