Cloud Foundry - The Platform Sugar

OpenStack VMs are virtual machines. You will still have to SSH into them, install software and maintain their life-cycle. But that is all infrastructure and not what anynines is about.

anynines is an application platform providing you with an API for creating services such as databases, message queues and most importantly deploying and scaling your applications with single commands.

The underlying software accomplishing this great user experience is the Cloud Foundry platform software. Cloud Foundry is, along with its orchestration tool Bosh , responsible for turning virtual machines into application servers, routers, health managers, databases and message queues.

Deploying your application to anynines means handing over code to the anynines Cloud Foundry instance. In case you are a curious mind you can take a closer look at the Cloud Foundry source code on GitHub.