Engine Yard

Engine Yard is a platform-as-a-service provider that runs customers' web applications on Amazon Web Services. It takes over the operational work so development teams with limited DevOps support can ship code without managing servers.

What Engine Yard offers

• Git push deployment — a developer commits and pushes, and the platform analyses the code, builds containers and runs them on Kubernetes.
• Private clusters — each customer receives its own AWS account and virtual networks, with a fully configured Kubernetes cluster.
• Auto scaling — pods grow with demand, using processor, memory and custom measures.
• Rolling deployments — releases go out without downtime or a drop in performance.
• Maintenance — stack and security updates, backups, replication planning and recovery are handled by the provider.

Who it works with

The service targets teams that run containerised applications, especially Ruby on Rails, and technical founders deploying to AWS. Hosting for Node.js, PHP, Java and Python is also listed.

Key facts

• Platform: AWS with Kubernetes
• Experience: long background in Ruby and AWS
• Approach: twelve-factor application principles