Engine Yard

Engine Yard is a platform-as-a-service provider that runs web applications on Amazon Web Services. Developers push their code and the platform builds containers and runs them on Kubernetes. The service is aimed at teams that have little DevOps capacity and want to avoid managing infrastructure.

What Engine Yard offers

• Git push deployment — a commit pushed to the repository is analysed, containerised and released.
• Private clusters — each customer gets a dedicated AWS account, its own network and a configured Kubernetes cluster.
• Auto scaling — pods scale on demand using CPU, memory and custom measures.
• Rolling deployments — releases without downtime or a drop in performance.
• Managed upkeep — replication, backup, recovery and stack updates are handled by the provider.
• Support — application and database help, architecture advice and round-the-clock coverage.

Who it works with

Technical founders and small engineering teams, especially those running Ruby on Rails apps.

Key facts

• Languages: Ruby, PHP, Node.js, Java and Python hosting
• Cloud: AWS