I have a need to add a centralized caching store for one of my projects serving the government. Does anyone know if memcached (or any other store) is FedRAMP certified ?
I know (:think) AWS ElastiCache is FedRAMP certified, however, I "can't" use a Cloud Store for the Cache as the software can be installed isolated from the internet.
Doesn't appear so on the FedRAMP website. Also, I believe FedRAMP only applies to SAAS, PAAS, and IAAS products.
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Is it possible to give users the ability to remotely edit documents that are stored in the cloud storage of my web application?
I know that with the webdav, you can remotely open and edit ms-office documents on the local machine and save files back to the cloud storage. I want to add this feature on my laravel web-application and i cant find the solution.
I heard about ITHit Webdav Library and i need something like this.
Do I need my own webdav server for this?
Are there any free solutions or libraries for this?
I use minio as cloud storage, can this library help me?
I need at least some guidance for this. Thank you very much in advance.
To answer your questions:
Yes, you need your own WebDAV server, cloud storage providers typically don't have this built-in.
The most popular library for PHP would be sabre/dav
It does not matter which cloud storage provider you use, with WebDAV it will work for most (if not all) and will definitely work with Minio. As for my recommended package, see above.
ITHit WebDAV Library is a commercial library and you should stick with open-source in my opinion.
Implementing it into Laravel would be quite opinionated, but doing so ultimately depends on what you need to achieve from a user experience and functionality perspective.
There is nothing simple about the road you're travelling and it is quite complex.
I'm working on a Laravel project and I'm using Redis for caching and stuff like that, everything is fine when I'm developing it but what should I do when I deploy the project, what are the requirements to run Redis on a host.
And do the shared hosting provide me the access to Redis? I think not, I read a lot about no supporting for Redis in shared hosting, so what should I do, is there an alternative way to run Redis? or is there a shared hosting supports it, please mention it.
Any recommendations, please :(
I got one of my questions here which is, how to keep the server running forever without running it from the Terminal.
How to keep redis server running
You need to ask the provider if they support Redis.
Redis is a software that needs to be installed on the web server or any server your web server has access to. It is not possible to install this yourself on a shared hosting.
You cannot install redis by yourself. You need to ask to your hosting company if they provide redis. You might need to pay extra for that. But, It would be a rare instance if hosting company provides redis by default on shared hosting. If you want good hosting service, I would recomment digitalocean.com. They provide servers at affordable rates
I am currently working heavily in Azure. I am actually quite fond of ARM (Azure Resource Manager) right now and would love to keep using it. Right now in the old portal, We have a lot of resources tied up as Cloud Services. Now, I know cloud services are available in the new portal, but it seems that Microsoft is moving away from the classic cloud service model. Can someone explain if this is true? If so, what will the new model look like? I already use resources groups to manage Websites (WebApps), so I assume this is where the azure future lies. Will we see the "deprecation" of cloud services on down the line?
I am trying to understand if I need to begin re-structuring my Azure Infrastructure.
Any insight, explanation, or documentation is greatly appreciated.
So there are two things here - Cloud Services and managemenet of Cloud Services.
When you manage Cloud Services in current portal the underlying mechanism used is Azure Service Management (ASM) where as it is Azure Resource Manager (ARM) in the preview portal. To me, ARM is the new way of managing your Cloud resources in Azure (including Cloud Services).
I don't work for Microsoft so I would not know if Cloud Services themselves will be deprecated down the road or not but one thing I think will happen is that ASM will be deprecated in favor of ARM. At some point of time, the only option you will be left with managing your cloud resources will be through Azure Resource Manager. One example that makes me believe this thing is the presence of Classic resource providers (e.g. Classic Storage Resource Provider which enables you to manage storage accounts created in current portal via ASM in the preview portal which works exclusively on ARM).
Personally I can't see a place for cloud services in the new ARM world of Azure. I have always found them a convoluted concept that simply added complexity to a deployment.
In the ARM view of deployments servers are collected together in a VNet, and each server is attached to a Nic which in turn can be connected to the internet. A security group then takes care of ingress / egress rules.
This is a much cleaner deployment method, as it puts connectivity configuration at the server layer instead of mapping them all through a higher layer of abstraction.
I don't see the place of cloud services in ARM, however after a quick search it seems that there is a plan to implement it
Still no direction from the Azure Advisers group other than officially they will not drop support for Cloud Services. I think they are nearing giving us some kind of direction but I can't say anymore than that.
I asked a question about the future of Cloud Services on the recent Azure Compute AMA.
You can read the answers directly on Reddit for all details, below are a few interesting quotes (emphasis mine).
On ARM Integration for Cloud Services:
We are looking at ways to make the transition to ARM easier for Cloud Service customers- one of those options includes CS integration in ARM. This investigation is in the very early stages though, so if you are looking for a solution soon, check out VMSS/ACS/SF/Web Apps (meagan-msft)
And:
I think it's safe to say that if we make any significant investment in CS in the near future, it would be ARM integration, and as Meagan suggests, that's still in planning. Beyond that, there are no major feature improvements on the horizon. We believe the platform is pretty mature at this point. (seanmichaelmckenna)
So it doesn't look like any major innovations will hit Cloud Services soon, however:
Cloud Services are not going anywhere. In fact, many Microsoft services run on Cloud Services, so we heavily rely on them as well. They are fully supported, so feel free to continue to use them.
(meagan-msft)
For those who want to switch to a different Compute service, these recommendations were made:
However, if you would like to check out other services that are integrated with ARM today, we recommend checking out the following:
Web Apps for customers who want a fully managed platform and are building traditional web applications
Service Fabric for customers who want an opinionated application platform and managed infrastructure, but still need some control over the IAAS layer
VM Scale Sets for customers who need IaaS-level control with easy scaling, autoscale and load balancer integration
Azure Container service was also listed as a potential alternative.
Some things to consider (my understanding):
Service Fabric currently (2017) requires at least 5 VM instances, except for dev/test purposes. So probably only an option for larger services
VM Scale Sets is an IaaS offering, i.e. you have to manage OS updates etc. yourself. However, support for automatic OS updates is being worked on.
I have part of my team using komodo, and so I have looked into Stackato. At first Stackato looked nice, but I can not figure out how to use it. It is available for download as a VM image. You can also deploy it to an existing infrastructure. But what is the point of this. Most cloud platforms I've used(Bluemix, PWS, Openshift, etc...) are in a cloud instance, but Stackato does not seem to do this. Do I have to use Stackato with some infrastructure, or can I get a in-cloud version?
If by "in a cloud instance" you mean offered as a hosted service (like Heroku, Engine Yard, and Google App Engine) then you could try the Stackato Sandbox which is a hosted trial environment.
That said, the real benefit of Stackato is that it's PaaS software that you can run yourself (i.e. "Private PaaS"), so to really get a feel for it from an Admin/Provider's perspective, you should deploy a small cluster in a public cloud like HP Helion Public Cloud or Amazon EC2.
Yes, you can run it on your own servers, but I think the cloud hosted option what you're looking for. You can run a cluster of around 5 Stackato nodes with a free license from ActiveState, but the cloud hosting costs still apply.
I am planning to migrate few products on Cloud which will be used as a platform for the developer community. In short I am trying to host PaaS vendor for my products which can be consumed by developers for build and development process.
The plan is as below:
I am trying to use Amazon IaaS ( S3, EC2) as the hardware.
I will require a cloud management software which can be installed somewhere on one of my local systems and can manage the Amazon cloud.
I will deploy all my products on the Amazon Cloud with the help of the Cloud Management Software.
I will develop and provide APIs to my end users(developer community) to use my service as a PaaS.
What I am trying to achieve is as follows:
Vendor independence in terms of IaaS. Lets say tomorrow I move to another IaaS provider.
Customer support for the cloud management software.
Ease of setup and use for the cloud management software.
Evaluation so far:
I tried looking at Eucalyptus and it sounds promising, but I am still not able to find out if this will be supporting the public cloud setup as my requirement is. I believe this is more like a private cloud setup.
If anyone can help me compare the other available options, that would help me solving my issue. For e.g. RightScale, OpenStack, CloudStack, Nimbula etc.
There are several PaaS providers out there. There is a comparison here: Looking for PaaS providers recommendations
Disclaimer: I work for GigaSpaces, developing the Cloudify open-source PaaS stack.
Cloudify answers most of your requirements, especially vendor independence - it supports a large number of IaaS providers, including: EC2, HP, Rackspace, Azure and others.
Cloudify does require its management server to run in the same cloud as the applications it runs so it can collect monitoring information using private communications rather then over the internet. Why do you want to run your management server on-premise?