JumpBox for Google App Engine Development

App Engine is a new application deployment system from Google that provides dynamic scalability for Python web apps.

Description

Google recently announced a new cloud based application deployment system called Google App Engine. We found this to be a pretty interesting system and since the SDK they released is Open Source we decided to put together a JumpBox for it.

The JumpBox gives you a drop in place system for doing Google App Engine development that's contained in an isolated environment within a virtual machine. It runs exactly the same on Mac, Windows or Linux and gives you a development environment that lets you take advantage of great virtualization features like snapshots. It will run from a single download on Parallels Desktop, any VMWare product, Virtual Iron, Microsoft Virtual PC/Server and Xen Open Source in fully virtualized mode.

It's a great solution if you want to play with the Google App Engine SDK without really installing it on your system. It's also perfect as an integration point for a small team working together on a Google App Engine project.

Google made it possible to build applications for App Engine using several different mechanisms and the JumpBox comes with CGI, Google Webapp and Django environments setup and ready for development. It's also a really great way to just kick the tires of the different frameworks before committing to development.

Also, since this is a JumpBox our backup system is included which allows you to backup your source code and development data to network shares or Amazon S3.

The JumpBox for Google App Engine Development is just something we put together because it looked interesting, if people find it useful we'll continue developing it and tracking Google's SDK releases. I think there are a lot of things we could add to it to make it a really useful tool for developing apps. If you have any suggestions definitely let us know.

You can get more information and download the JumpBox from here

There's a large number of JumpBoxes available for other uses as well.

• Drupal CMS
• Joomla! CMS
• TikiWiki CMS
• Alfresco Document Management
• Trac/Subversion Software Project Management
• ProjectPier Project Management
• MediaWiki Wiki
• DokuWiki Wiki
• MoinMoin Wiki
• PmWiki Wiki
• Cacti Network Graphing
• TWiki Enterprise Wiki
• vTiger CRM
• SugarCRM
• Wordpress Blog System
• PunBB Discussion Forums
• phpBB Discussion Forums
• OTRS Trouble Ticketing
• Bugzilla Bug Tracking
• Mantis Bug Tracking

Beta JumpBoxes are also available for

• Silverstripe CMS
• OpenLDAP Directory Server
• Redmine
• Nagios
• Drupal 6
• Movable Type

Last updated: 04/10/2008

Operating system: Linux

Applications installed:
JumpBox Platform 1.0.5, Google App Engine SDK 1.0

VMware Tools installed: Yes

Size: 141 MB MB
Torrent available: No
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Primary account
Username: admin
Password: set on initial boot

Submitted by: kstaken

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