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Welcome

Gasper is an intelligent Platform as a Service (PaaS) used for deploying and managing applications and databases in any cloud topology.

The Dilemma

Imagine you have a couple of Bare Metal Servers and/or Virtual Machines (collectively called nodes) at your disposal. Now you want to deploy a couple of applications/services to these nodes in such a manner so as to not put too much load on a single node.

Naive Approach

Your 1^st option is to manually decide which application goes to which node, then use ssh/telnet to manually setup all of your applications in each node one by one.

A Wise Choice

But you are smarter than that, hence you go for the 2^nd option which is Kubernetes. You setup Kubernetes in all of your nodes which forms a cluster, and now you can deploy your applications without worrying about load distribution. But Kubernetes requires a lot of configuration for each application(deployments, services, stateful-sets etc) not to mention pipelines for creating the corresponding docker image.

The Ultimatum

Here comes (🥁drumroll please 🥁) Gasper, your 3^rd option!
Gasper builds and runs applications in docker containers directly from source code instead of docker images. It requires minimal parameters for deploying an application, so minimal that you can count them on fingers in one hand 🤚. Same goes for Gasper provisioned databases. Gone are the days of hard labour (writing configurations).

What is Gasper in a nutshell ?

Your Cloud in a Binary :)