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What is AppScale?

AppScale is a platform that allows users to deploy and host their own Google App Engine applications. It executes automatically over Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Google Compute Engine, Eucalyptus, Openstack, CloudStack, as well as KVM and VirtualBox. It has been developed and is maintained by AppScale Systems, Inc., in Santa Barbara. It supports the Python, Java, Go, and PHP Google App Engine platforms.

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Running AppScale

• Fast Start on EC2
• How to deploy on:
  • VirtualBox
  • Amazon EC2
  • Google Compute Engine
  • Virtualized Cluster
  • Rackspace
  • Eucalyptus
  • OpenStack and CloudStack
  • Docker
• Managing Apps, Machines, and Logs
• Automated Data Persistence
• Multinode Deployments
• Migration into AppScale, Backup & Recovery
• Remote Shell (view your app data)
• Troubleshooting
• FAQs

Datastore Topics

• Adding Support for a New Database
• How AppScale implements Transaction support
• The Life of a Datastore Write
• Emulating Megastore
• Composite Queries

Making AppScale Scale

• Adding Machines to an AppScale Deployment
• Autoscaling Application Servers
• Autoscaling Triggers
• Performance Tuning

Building AppScale Virtual Machine Images

• Installing AppScale from source on GitHub

Advanced Topics

• Using Spot Instances in EC2
• How AppScale implements the Google App Engine APIs
• Logging in AppScale
• The Channel API in AppScale
• Monit in AppScale
• TaskQueue API in AppScale
• Search API in AppScale
• Memcache API

Learn about AppScale core components

• AppController
• InfrastructureManager
• UserAppServer
• DatastoreServer
• AppDB
• AppTaskQueue
• AppManager
• SearchServer

Other

• How to Contribute
• References on AppScale

Check us out

• Commercial Page
• Our Community Page
• Google Groups
• YouTube
• IRC (#appscale on freenode.net)