Cloudcat - Enterprise Tomcat in the Cloud
Overview
MuleSoft Cloudcat™ is enterprise Tomcat in the cloud – a fully supported virtual image (Amazon EC2 AMI, GoGrid GSI) that allows developers and QA to build and test web applications easily in the cloud. Cloudcat includes Apache Tomcat, ready-to-use and pre-configured with Linux (Redhat on GoGrid, Ubuntu on EC2) and MySQL. Cloudcat is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit images. Using Cloudcat, developers and QA can rapidly deploy and test their web applications, and IT operations professionals can leverage on-demand infrastructure that they can start up during peak demand times or as a cheaper alternative to deploying Tomcat on a physical server in their own data center.
Simplifying Tomcat for the Cloud
Apache Tomcat is the world’s most widely used application server, with over 1 million downloads per month and over 70% penetration in the enterprise datacenter. Apache Tomcat has grown in popularity with application developers due to its lightweight simplicity, providing a powerful application platform with none of the cost or complexity of legacy Java EE platforms.
As organizations start to use cloud platforms as a way to expand their data center capacity, they are moving some of their dev/test and select production workloads to the cloud environment. Apache Tomcat is ideally suited for the elastic nature of the cloud, as it does not carry the heavy infrastructure needs often required by legacy Java EE application servers.
Until now there have been no reliable and supported virtual images of Tomcat available on the cloud for use by organizations. Using Apache Tomcat in the cloud has required manual installation and configuration of Tomcat before installing other required software. MuleSoft has solved that problem with Cloudcat, a virtual image that contains the latest version of Apache Tomcat with MySQL running on a Linux distribution. Cloudcat is the cloud runtime for your web applications, making accessible the power of the cloud to modern web applications.
Differences between Cloudcat Amazon Edition and Cloudcat GoGrid Edition:
| Feature |
Cloudcat Amazon Edition
|
Cloudcat GoGrid Edition
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|---|---|---|
| Subscription |
Hourly
|
Monthly
|
| Usage |
Dev/Test, pre-production
|
Pre-production, production
|
| OS |
Ubuntu
|
RedHat
|
| Database |
MySQL
|
MySQL
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| Dynamic scaling of infrastructure frequently |
Yes
|
No
|
| Pricing |
Starting at 30 cents per hour
(including EC2 infrastructure fees)
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Starting at $29 per month
|
If you need more than basic monitoring, check out Tcat Server from MuleSoft. In addition to basic Apache Tomcat monitoring, Tcat Server's intuitive graphical console allows you to view detailed diagnostic data, perform remote configuration management, create server groups and server profiles, and provision/de-provision your web applications to a Cloudcat instance from Tcat Server.
