Freedom of Choice in a Turnkey Multi-Cloud PaaS

Jelastic
4 min readMay 6, 2019

Life is too short to waste time on running from one product to the other gleaning the required functionality. “One stop shop” cloud platform is no longer a dream. It became one of the primary Jelastic goals to help customers attain all required cloud services within a single platform providing a turnkey solution for both business and DevOps teams.

Need a tool to manage infrastructure and speed up time to market? Here you get a whole DevOps platform that accelerates development and simplifies application lifecycle management by automating deployment, scaling, clustering, continuous integration and delivery, etc. This PaaS is open for all types of projects supporting both traditional (so called legacy) applications and cloud-native microservices.

Need to orchestrate containers and be in trend with all that Kubernetes hype? This platform is container-based and provides system containers (Virtuozzo) and application containers (Docker) orchestration with advanced multi-tenancy and pre-configured Kubernetes clusters hosting. In other words, it is a fully-functional Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) out-of-box.

Running traditional or legacy applications? Cloud-native world scares you? No worries, just keep going with built-in Elastic VPS, Plesk, cPanel, ISPmanager and so on for your existing projects. Even the most complex Java EE applications can be migrated to Jelastic PaaS without code changes, attain container density and scalability with no need to adjust the code. As a result, you get “traditional hosting with cloud benefits.”

Want to cut cloud costs? Enjoy unique pay-per-use pricing model based on automatic vertical scaling. It is only available in Jelastic for all kinds of workloads while other clouds offer this modern pricing model only for serverless services. In addition, you save a lot using hibernation of inactive instances, high density of containers running on top of bare metal, and add-ons for automated scheduling of environments activity.

Need to SaaSify the product to expand your business? Here you get the cloud platform that enables easy transformation to as-a-service model with built-in billing, monitoring and managed services on demand.

Requires extra level of protection against downtimes and data center failures? Or just wish not to be limited to a specific infrastructure vendor? Jelastic gives you multi-cloud availability across a wide network of local service providers and global cloud players with zero lock-in. You can install the platform on-premise, or get it as public, private, hybrid or multi-cloud. Mix and match the options, distribute the workloads based on your requirements, migrate applications and containers across the regions doing all these actions within a single point of management.

Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python, .NET, Go environments, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes clusters, GitLab, Jenkins — this is just a short list of technologies available within a single platform.

Using own functionality, Jelastic created a marketplace of certified software stacks and popular applications that are optimized for scaling and high-availability (the most notable and popular are Enterprise WordPress and Magento Packs, Database-as-a-Service, Kubernetes-as-a-Service, and others).

Jelastic provides two licensing models:

Jelastic includes out-of-box resource monitoring and metering with alert notifications, built-in billing integrated with WHMCS, CloudBlue, Cleverbridge, as well as ability to connect own custom billing solution through open API.

All described functionality is managed via feature-rich and intuitive UI significantly reducing complexity and entry barrier. More experienced users can also use SSH access, as well as CLI, API and CloudScripting for implementing custom automation.

Jelastic PaaS is a freedom of choice in action. Get started trying out the platform benefits for free at one of the available Jelastic service providers or sending request to partner. It’s known that once discovered a freedom, it is difficult to get back to limits, and why should you?

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