Platform as a Service

This is the public repository for the prototype of the PAAS project.

What is PAAS?

TODO

Status:

This project is currently in the "proof of concept" mode.

License

TODO

Layout

The project is organized as a number of sub-projects, with the important ones to know about being:

The common library (platform/common), contains common interfaces shared across platform modules.
The kernel library (platform/kernel), contains the boot-strapping functionality. It's responsible for starting system services and introducing them to each other.
The host library (platform/host), contains the manager for hosted applications.
The platformDB library (platform/platformDB), contains the platform database.
The platformUI library (platform/platformUI), contains the end-points for the platform web-application.

Steps to test the PAAS functionality:

Note that steps 1 and 2 are temporary, and step 2 needs to be re-executed every time after an OS reboot. Steps 3-5 need to be done just once.

Make sure your "etc/hosts" file contains the following entries:

127.0.0.10 admin.xqiz.it
127.0.0.20 welcome.acme.user.xqiz.it
127.0.0.21 banking.acme.user.xqiz.it

Allow the loopback addresses binding by running this script as an admin user: (this step needs to be repeated after reboot)
```
 cd platform
 sudo ./bin/allowLoopback.sh
```
Create "xqiz.it" subdirectory under the user home directory for the platform persistent data. The subdirectory "platform" will be used to keep the platform operational information and subdirectory "users" for hosted applications.

Create a self-signed certificate for the platform web server. For example:

keytool -genkeypair -alias platform -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 365 -dname "OU=Platform, O=[your name], C=US" -keystore ~/xqiz.it/platform/certs.p12 -storetype PKCS12 -storepass [password]

Add a symmetric key to encode the cookies:

 keytool -genseckey -alias cookies -keyalg AES -keysize 256 -keystore ~/xqiz.it/platform/certs.p12 -storetype PKCS12 -storepass [password]

Start the platform services using the gradle command (from within the "platform" directory):
```
gradle run
```
Open the hosting site in a browser:

http://admin.xqiz.it:8080/
Follow the instructions from the Examples repository to build and "upload" a web application.
Click "AddModule" and specify an application module and the domain ("welcome", or "banking").
Click "Load application" - after a couple of seconds a URL should appear.
Click on the URL to launch your application web page.

kabutz / ecstasy-platform