The TyphoonAE project aims at providing a full-featured and productive serving environment to run Google App Engine (Python) applications. It delivers the parts for building your own scalable App Engine while staying compatible with Google's API.

Important note: The current development status is beta. At this point it is not guaranteed that any GAE application will run completely error-free on TyphoonAE. So, stay patient please!

See the Release Notes for information on the current release and the Product Roadmap for further details on planned features.

The Stack

• Google App Engine SDK http://code.google.com/appengine
• mongoDB http://www.mongodb.org
• BDBDatastore - http://arachnid.github.com/bdbdatastore
• memcached http://memcached.org
• RabbitMQ http://www.rabbitmq.com
• ejabberd - http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd
• FastCGI http://www.fastcgi.com
• nginx http://nginx.net/
• Supervisor http://supervisord.org

All these components will be automatically installed by zc.buildout into an isolated directory tree on your development machine. If you want to remove the TyphoonAE development environment you just have to delete this single directory.

For some good reasons why using zc.buildout you may want to read this post or watch this talk.

The configuration above is tested on OS X, Debian and Ubuntu Linux. Several parts can be replaced by editing the buildout.cfg file. But you should really know what you're doing.

Architecture Overview

PyPI

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/typhoonae

Resources

• David Rousseau shows on Google App Engine as a Framework how to install TyphoonAE on Ubuntu.