This README is quite lacking, but I don’t have time to write anything better right now=)
Cortex is a collection of software that together provides a distributed hosting platform for web applications.
Miranda provides storage for other modules and acts as a communication bus between them.
Saffron actually starts and kills web application servers.
G23 cleans up after Saffron instances that didn’t close properly.
Ariel provides a load balancer for all application servers started by Saffron.
Client application to manage the platform.
Cortex should run on any UNIX-like OS, especially any GNU based OS should be fine.
Cortex is mostly written in Haskell and requires a compiler implementing
Haskell 2010 standard and several language extensions (grep for LANGUAGE in
sources to get a list). GHC 7.4 is recommended and it was the only compiler
tested, but other compilers could probably be used. Apart from the standard
library Cortex requires following Haskell packages:
hinotifyHsOpenSSLhstringtemplatehunitlifted-basenetworkrandomshatemporary
Parts written in Python should work with any 2.7 or 3.2+ compatible interpreter/compiler. Cortex needs these Python packages:
psutil
Cortex build script needs a shell that expands ** to every file under current
directory, currently the shell is hard set to /bin/zsh.
By default build script uses GHC's LLVM backend, you might have to install it separately from GHC.
Ariel requires Nginx to run.
Depending on the kind of frameworks you want to use, you might need to install additional software:
- Nginx
You should install RVM if you want to use this module.
- Phusion Passenger
- Bundler
Utils/autobuild will rebuild Cortex when any Haskell source file changes, it
can be used similarly to autobuild functionality from IDEs like Eclipse.
- God to monitor memory and CPU usage of servers.
- Authentication and authorisation.