CloudBees, a startup that made a name for itself as a cloud service for testing and running developers’ applications, will no longer offer a platform for running apps. This means companies who use CloudBees will have to take their business elsewhere.
The result: CloudBees will send apps either to the companies’ existing on-premises data centers or to public clouds, like Google’s App Engine. Developers must get off the service by the end of this year, and CloudBees will help customers make their moves until Oct. 31.
The change, announced today in a statement, is a big one for any company that runs an application on CloudBees’ platform as a service (PaaS).
But the change does acknowledge the continuing growth of top public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure, which can frequently drop prices, add data centers, and come out with new features. It’s hard for smaller companies to compete with such cloud giants when developers know they can just take their applications to better places, even off clouds altogether.
Those market conditions might well have influenced another startup, Docker, to sell its PaaS last month. And another startup with a PaaS, AppFog, agreed to an acquisition by telecommunications and cloud provider CenturyLink.
Now CloudBees can focus on its core service of simplifying the use of Jenkins, an open-source continuous-integration (CI) server for frequently testing code. That includes a cloud service for Jenkins, as well as software that companies can use in their own facilities.
And CloudBees can also spend more time articulating its value in comparison with continuous startups that eschew Jenkins, including CircleCI and Drone.io.
CloudBees announced an $11.2 million funding round earlier this year.
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CloudBees ditches its cloud, will help devs send code elsewhere
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