Engine Yard Technology Overview

Engine Yard provides an easy to use dashboard making it easy to configure your environments, deploy new applications, monitor performance, configure alerts and scale your instances up and down. Using the dashboard, you can select and install any number of third-party Engine Yard Add-ons to extend your environment with additional stack options, application services and more. Engine Yard also provides a software package that lets developers deploy directly from the command line, if desired.

Engine Yard Cloud includes deployment machinery that instantiates virtual servers and provisions them with instances of the stack and your application code. This machinery operates when you click the deploy button (or perhaps invoke it from a command line), and it gets out of the way once deployment is complete and your application is up and running. This machinery is a combination of Chef scripts and Web services and is designed to allow you to rapidly spin up new instances in a replicable and scalable fashion.

In addition, Engine Yard Cloud tracks resource utilization and alerts you when you need additional capacity, or if your latest deploy is not behaving optimally. Storage, CPU and memory utilization levels are all tracked for conformance to pre-configured thresholds, and email alerts provide timely warnings.

Engine Yard Cloud provides developers with a dedicated environment that can be customized for the unique needs of their applications. Developers can easily configure their Engine Yard environments to include anything from a single instance to dozens of load-balanced, redundant instances. Developers can easily configure environments with tiers of application instances, database instances, and worker/utility instances to ensure their application can handle any level of traffic as business grows. In addition, developers can choose from a range of application runtimes, frameworks, databases, third-party add-ons and other stack components.