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Eucalyptus - Free Interfacing(Mocking) of Amazon Web Services
Back in Nov. 2008, I attended the informative Eucalyptus talk in the Silicon Valley cloud computing group meetup.
Eucalyptus, the academic project from Professor Rich Wolski at UC Santa Babara, is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to Eucalyptus is compatible with Amazon's EC2 and S3 interfaces.
Impressions with Heroku: Just Another Nice Toy for Deploying Simple Ruby on Rails Applications
I finally had a chance to play with Heroku cause I wanted to quickly try out OneBody - open source Ruby on Rails based social network.
I followed the instruction to create my app. What's missing there is that you'd need to generate public/private key before calling 'heroku create urapp'. It's as simple as issuing 'ssh-keygen -t rsa' for Linux. see GitHub docs for more information.
I also tried to use the import interface at Heroku to import OneBody, but it always timed out. Heroku should have provided a simple import command via Heroku gem to create a new application through importing.
Tags: aws ec2 vps heroku ruby_on_rails deployment
Amazon Web Services(AWS) Finally Offers Persistent Storage(Elastic Block Store)
Today, Amazon announces Elastic Block Store(EBS). This is the final missing piece in their cloud computing offering.
RightScale wrote two very good blogs explaining EBS:
Clearly, RightScale has been testing EBS for quite a while prior ASW announced persistent storage support back in Apri.
