Ceph, Docker, Heroku Slugs, CoreOS and Deis provide open source tools for distributed systems and platforms as a service (PaaS). Ceph is an open source distributed storage system that provides object, block, and file storage. Docker uses Linux containers to package and run applications without dependencies and CoreOS provides a minimal Linux distribution optimized for hosting containers. Deis uses Docker and CoreOS to provide a PaaS with a Heroku-like workflow for deploying containerized apps on a user's own servers. The document provides an overview of these tools and how Deis allows deploying both stateless HTTP apps and Heroku buildpack apps on a local PaaS cluster.