Introducing the App Platform
2024-04-02
Our app platform has reached public beta. There’s support for popular languages like Go, Java, Python and Node.js–just supply a git repository and your app will be deployed and kept in sync with the repository as new commits are pushed.
Increasingly, developers want to focus solely on their applications and leave the heavy lifting of securing, scaling and maintaining them to a trusted partner. Things like renewing TLS certificates have become a real foot gun, with news of expired certs and broken apps in the papers almost daily. Also, as last week’s xz vulnerability has shown, managing physical and virtual machines requires extra effort and care.
A PaaS can help not only simplify operational burden, but steer application architectures toward more maintainable patterns. We’ve started using the platform for our applications and have witnessed more clarity in how apps interrelate and share common dependencies.
Getting started is as easy as cloning the examples repository, and creating an app that points to it. Just push your changes and watch them update live. We also support deploying from private GitHub repositories. See the docs for more info.
The app platform can deploy from OCI (docker) container images, too. This provides a bit more flexibility and works nicely with some customers’ existing workflows of having container builds performed on CI for each commit to a master branch.
We’ve also introduced our registry for storing container images at registry.entrywan.com. IAM has been expanded to generate tokens that allow pushing and pulling from this repository.
There’s full documentation available as well as the API coverage. Please send us any feedback you may have.