One of the questions that is often asked of me as a Cloud Solutions Architect and Consultant is: Why do I need a private cloud? This is a valid question on several levels, but rather than give the usual spiel on 'security' and 'control', I want to delve into a tangible usage scenario where a private cloud makes sense. While this is just one scenario, think about the ways that this can apply to so many more scenarios that are similar or have similar goals and end-states.
There is no...
I have recently taken a new role at Sales Engineer at Eucalyptus and one time consuming issue I keep running into with clients is image management - specifically being able to import an EBS backed image from EC2 into Eucalyptus.
The merits of this endeavor are open for debate: I would much prefer hybrid users use separate images on different clouds and simply use cloud-init scripts, or a similar mechanism, to pull up the same application stack on each of them. That being said,...
Background
Big Data has been a hot topic over the last few years. Big Data on public clouds, such as AWS’s Elastic MapReduce, has been gaining even more popularity as cloud...
I thought the Ansible 1.0 development...
I thought the Ansible 1.0 development cycle was busy but 1.1 is crammed full of orchestration goodness. On Tuesday, 1.1 was released and you can read more about it here: http://blog.ansibleworks.com/2013/04/02/ansible-1-1-released/
For those working on AWS and Eucalyptus, 1.1 brings some nice module improvements as well as a new cloudformation and s3 module. It’s great to see the AWS-related modules becoming...
At a meetup event down in San Diego, California, Eucalyptus had a chance to meet Sander van Zoest (@svanzoest), the VP of technology at OneHealth (http://www.onehealth.com/), who is also the organizer of the San Diego...
The upcoming version of euca2ools, version 3, completely reworks the command line suite to make it both easier to write and easier to use. Part 1 of this series discussed the user-facing changes version 3 has to offer, and today we’re going to take a look at how things improve on the developer’s side of the fence.
A...
本文是对《CY12-Q4 OpenStack, OpenNebula，Eucalyptus，CloudStack社区活跃度比较》一文的补充和更新。对本文内容感兴趣的读者，可以通过电子邮件或者新浪微博（@qyjohn_）与我联系。
本文同时发布了一个英文版本，可以参见CY13-Q1 Community Analysis — OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs...
This article is an update version of my previous article CY12-Q4 Community Analysis — OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs Eucalyptus vs CloudStack. Readers who are intested in further discussions please contact me via email at the above-mentioned...
