{"id":5030,"date":"2011-10-19T08:47:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T07:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5030-zends-php-cloud-develop-in-the-cloud-deploy-anywhere.html"},"modified":"2011-10-19T08:47:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T07:47:06","slug":"zends-php-cloud-develop-in-the-cloud-deploy-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5030-zends-php-cloud-develop-in-the-cloud-deploy-anywhere.html","title":{"rendered":"Zend\u2019s PHP cloud: develop in the cloud, deploy anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zend has announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zend.com\/en\/products\/studio\/downloads-beta\" target=\"_blank\">Zend Studio 9 beta<\/a>, the latest version of its IDE for PHP. The feature that caught my eye is integrated support for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpcloud.com\" target=\"_blank\">Zend Developer Cloud<\/a>, currently in technical preview. Setting up a PHP development environment is not too difficult, but can be a hassle to maintain, and the idea of being able to fire up an IDE anywhere and start coding is attractive.<\/p>\n<p>You do not need Zend Studio to use the Developer Cloud; they are independent projects, and you can use the free Eclipse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/projects\/project.php?id=tools.pdt\" target=\"_blank\">PHP Development Tools<\/a> (PDT) or another IDE or editor.<\/p>\n<p>The PHP Developer Cloud is not just a shared hosting environment for PHP applications:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All applications are housed within a container on the Zend Application Fabric. This container is separate from all other containers and has its own database instance and is easily connected to your IDE.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Zend Application Fabric is for deployment as well as development. It is a server framework that includes the Zend Framework and also the capability of scaling on demand. <\/p>\n<p>Once you have developed your app, you can deploy to any cloud provider that supports the Zend Application Fabric, including <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/cloudformation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Web Services<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/cloud-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\">IBM SmartCloud<\/a>,&#160; a private \u201ccustom cloud\u201d, or a resilient multiple cloud option which Zend calls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpcloud.com\/deploy\/rightscale\" target=\"_blank\">RightScale<\/a>. You can deploy to RightScale using both Amazon and Rackspace together, which I presume means your app will keep on going even if one of these providers were to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Details on the site are sketchy, but if Zend has got this right it ticks a lot of boxes for enterprise PHP developers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/image28.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/image_thumb28.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zend has announced Zend Studio 9 beta, the latest version of its IDE for PHP. The feature that caught my eye is integrated support for the Zend Developer Cloud, currently in technical preview. Setting up a PHP development environment is not too difficult, but can be a hassle to maintain, and the idea of being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5030-zends-php-cloud-develop-in-the-cloud-deploy-anywhere.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zend\u2019s PHP cloud: develop in the cloud, deploy anywhere<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,67,80,103],"tags":[721,722,1059],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php","category-professional","category-software-development","category-zend","tag-php","tag-phpcloud","tag-zend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}