PHP 5.5 - Zend Server Developer Edition (Ubuntu)
Zend Technologies USA, Inc. | 7.0.0* PVLinux/Unix, Ubuntu 12.04 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Excellent Way to Quickly Deploy Zend
The Zend Server Developer Edition instance was an excellent way to quickly create a cloud-based developer environment. Also runs well on a micro instance for a very low cost solution to a shared development environment.
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Phil's Review
I use Zend's products for absolutely everything for one reason, simplicity. I am running a small business doing everything on my own, from learning PHP to learning Zend Framework 2, to deploying the application. The Zend team steered me towards this product, because I was looking for the simplest, most effective way of deploying my app to the cloud and having the thing just work (and scale if I get a lot of traffic). Literally, all I want to do is develop my app on Zend Studio, save it to the cloud, debug it, and then push it to production. I am not a devops pro by any stretch of the imagination, and most of my troubles I am sure are solvable, but here are some basic issues I ran into and are currently working to learn (solve).
1. Learning the AWS verbage is a task unto itself (EC2, AWS, AMI, instances, VPS, S3... Yikes!).
2. In order to have any of this work, you must have a way of SSHing into your instance. This worked out of the box on the Zend Cloud, but not here. I'm still in the process of figuring out how to simply click 'save' and have my php file saved to the cloud.
3.Between Zend Studio, Zend Server, and AWS, there are lots of different usernames, keypairs, passwords, fingerprints, instance id's etc. It's hard to wrap your mind around who is the client and who is the server, who is the host etc. For example, when you deploy your PHP app(which the Zend videos make look tantalizingly easy) Zend Studio prompts you for your Zend Server login credentials. Later, however, it asks you for a username and password to establish connection properties. These are not the same username and password as before. For me, it's very difficult to differentiate between 'talking to Zend Server' and 'talking to the EC2-instance that's running Zend Server'.
Bottom line, if you're a veteran sysops pro, you're probably going to love this software. If you're a novice like me, prepare for a substantial investment of mental bandwidth.
- Phil Murray