Functional Programming in the Cloud: How to Run Haskell on OpenShift by Katie Miller.
From the post:
One of the benefits of Platform as a Service (PaaS) is that it makes it trivial to try out alternative technology stacks. The OpenShift PaaS is a polyglot platform at the heart of a thriving open-source community, the contributions of which make it easy to experiment with applications written in a host of different programming languages. This includes the purely functional Haskell language.
Although it is not one of the Red Hat-supported languages for OpenShift, Haskell web applications run on the platform with the aid of the community-created Haskell cartridge project. This is great news for functional programming (FP) enthusiasts such as myself and those who want to learn more about the paradigm; Haskell is a popular choice for learning FP principles. In this blog post, I will discuss how to create a Haskell web application on OpenShift.
Prerequisites
If you do not have an OpenShift account yet, sign up for OpenShift Online for free. You’ll receive three gears (containers) in which to run applications. At the time of writing, each of these free gears come with 512MB of RAM and 1GB of disk space.
To help you communicate with the OpenShift platform, you should install the RHC client tools on your machine. There are instructions on how to do that for a variety of operating systems at the OpenShift Dev Center. Once the RHC tools are installed, run the command
rhc setupon the command line to configure RHC ready for use.
Katie’s post is a great way to get started with OpenShift!
However, it also reminds me of why I dislike Daylight Savings Time. It is getting dark later in the Eastern United States but there are still only twenty-four (24) hours in a day! An extra eight (8) hours a day and the stamina to stay awake for them would be better. 😉
Unlikely to happen so enjoy Katie’s post during the usual twenty-four (24) hour day.