Having decided that mobile is the place to be, Rackspace is offering developers free purpose-built mobile cloud stacks based on OpenStack to help them “design, build, test, deploy and scale mobile apps” on its cloud.
The stacks are supposed to reduce complexity and save deployment time while Rackspace manages background operations.
The first stack is for PHP and includes LAMP plus the HTTP accelerator Varnishd, Memcache, PHP Memcache extensions and Alternative PHP Cache (APC), all open source code.
Rackspace is also working on stacks for Ruby on Rails and Node.js back-ends.