[Neos] Neos on Google App Engine?

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Hi Jacob,

cool that you dug into that. I was wondering myself the last days.

But: Why would you want to support such a "castrated" PHP environment as
GAE in the first place? It's just because it's Google? Is it cheaper
than Amazon instances or some modern "Other-Cloud" environments? Is it
better scalable?

This is not sarcastic question, it's just that I haven't found any
convincing reason for anyone to choose this "strange" (and experimental)
platform, opposed to some "regular" modern Linux (be it cloudy)
infrastructure.

Thanks for your explanations!

Cheers,
Ernesto

Jacob Floyd schrieb am 17.05.2013 18:21:
> So, Google just announced that Google App Engine will support (on a
> limited basis) PHP. I'm curious to see if there's any way to get Neos
> running in the App Engine, so, I looked through the docs. Here's what I
> found:
> 
> Surf will probably need a new workflow to deploy first to somewhere with
> the SDK and then use the SDK to push it to the App Engine.
> 
> They've got an tutorial that shows how to deploy WordPress at [1].
> 
> Based on [2], Google Cloud SQL is treated like MySQL in PHP (it might
> _be_ MySQL), so Doctrine should have no problems supporting it with
> pdo_mysql. One difference is that in place of the host, it uses
> unix_sockets. And when using the sockets, the database name doesn't seem
> to matter.
> 
> Going through their API Docs[3], it looks like we could use a Flow App
> (or more than one) that integrates some of these features into Flow:
> * CloudStorage(For storing files - use this instead of writing to the
> filesystem, because that's not allowed)
> * TaskQueue(like the other JobQueues, Beanstalk and Redis)
> * Google Users(instead of keeping user credentials in the app, we hand
> off login to google)
> 
> On that note, the Cloud Storage requirement might be the biggest
> problem[13], because Flow needs to compile and store all of the files,
> and they would have to be stored on Cloud Storage... I'm not sure how
> that will work. The other requirement that might be problematic is the
> prohibition of system calls[14]. I'm not sure the CLI version of PHP is
> even available.
> 
> So, what do you think? Can Flow and Neos be modified to work in the App
> Engine? What would it take?
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/wordpress
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/cloud-sql/developers-guide
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/refdocs
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/refdocs/files/api.cloud_storage.CloudStorageTools
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/refdocs/files/ext.cloud_storage_streams.CloudStorageClient
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/refdocs/files/ext.cloud_storage_streams.CloudStorageStreamWrapper
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/googlestorage/overview
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/refdocs/files/api.taskqueue.PushTask
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/taskqueue/
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/refdocs/files/api.users.User
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/refdocs/files/api.users.UserService
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/users/
> 
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/runtime#The_Sandbox
> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/runtime#Function-Support