Engine Yard, a San Francisco-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) company, has released version 5 of its eponymous development environment — a “huge milestone” that supports Docker containers and the most recent versions of several popular programming languages, the company says.
Engine Yard is designed to automate the configuration, deployment and maintenance of applications running on Amazon Web Services. It’s used by application developers for gaming, online shopping, product launches, websites and social photo tagging, among other things, according to the company’s website.
Version 5 of its software is built around the Gentoo Linux 2016.06 distribution, advanced to kernel 4.4.x, which includes new security measures, Engine Yard said. It supports PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0.6, Node JS versions 4 and 5, Ruby 2.3, nginx 1.8 and PostgreSQL 9.5
There are also implications for Chef, the Seattle-based DevOps company. The new version of Engine Yard uses Chef 12, and most Chef 12 recipes can be ported from version 4. It includes version 2.0 of Enzyme, the software that coordinates Chef runs, which the company said has a cleaner user interface and simplifies writing and debugging recipes. Applications written in any language can now be used with Docker containers, whether stateless or stateful, using AWS’s Elastic Block Store.
Founded in 2006 to assist Ruby developers, Engine Yard is backed by Amazon, Bay Partners, Benchmark Capital, Dag Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Oracle and Presidio Ventures. It claims thousands of customers in 58 countries. It was founded and led for six years by Tom Mornini, who has since founded Subledger.com, a company offering a double-entry accounting API, according to his LinkedIn profile.
