The Iron Foundry project has had an amazing nine months since its launch. Thank you to the entire community for your support and contributions.
With over 3500 downloads and 500 active developers using the free Iron Foundry.ME trial environment, the project has exceeded our expectations.
First, the Iron Foundry team released some powerful tools to support the community including
• Soon after launch we added the NET DEA.
• In February we enabled local development for .NET community with the Micro Iron Foundry
• In April we released the Iron Foundry .ME Environment enabling full Cloud Foundry support + .NET in a free test environment. In addition, we expanded database support to MySQL and Postgres and added support for Rabbit MQ.
• In August we issued an update to the Iron Foundry VMC to keep it in synch with Cloud Foundry.
And, we are very excited not only about the continuing evolution of the available tools, but also the momentum in the industry around Cloud Foundry and Iron Foundry adoption. Among the many highlights:
• Intel — one of the world’s best IT shops — recently revealed that they are running Cloud Foundry and Iron Foundry as their internal environment
• The team at Active announced full Stackato integration with Iron Foundry
• New Zealand’s Appsecute launched their Cloud Foundry application management service with support for managing Iron Foundry applications.
Today we are excited to give you a sneak peak at something special the team has been working on we’ll release to the community in September: Project Thor.
Thor — and its brother Thor.NET — is the new client tool for managing your Cloud Foundry and Iron Foundry environments from the desktop. Thor is the OS-X version and Thor.NET is the Windows version. To grab a sneak peak of the UI and to read our thoughts around design, architecture, and our belief in community for these tools go to http://www.ironfoundry.org/thor.
OS-X Thor
Windows 8 Sneak Peak
If you would like to contribute to Thor drop us a note at team@ironfoundry.org.
Thanks!
Jared