Euca Monkey is an easy-to-deploy test tool designed for performing stress-test on Eucalyptus Cloud. The tool repeatedly generates and tears down 6 types of cloud user resources: running instances,...
After some discussion on the Eucalyptus Community Mailing list,
I'm happy to annouce I've had a crack at a python based plugin for sosreport.
Sosreport is a cool support data collection utility written in python and availble for RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu & Debian. It can collect
lots of useful system files...
Reblogged from GigaOM: The push to make Boston the de facto hub of big data will continue Thursday with the gala launch of the hack/reduce space in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The historic space — in the old brick Kendall Boiler and Tank building — will be home to big data practitioners from academia, private and public industry. Hack/reduce, [...]...
Eucalyptus 3.2 is becoming ready. It is going to be out soon. But if you think, it’s too hard for you to wait till GA, there are two solutions for you to try out. You can check out nightly builds … Continue reading ...
Open Source Software Project… What is it good for?
It’s free! It’s for the community! It’s the future of software! It’s better than closed! Everyone is doing it! It drives innovation! It’s the way of Steve Jobs (huh?)…...
It doesn’t get much easier than this. Press Enter 7 times and have a complete Eucalyptus cloud installed and configured. Follow along as we explore this new installation option available with Eucalyptus FastStart 3.1.2 called “Cloud-in-a-Box”.
3 Simple Steps to install Eucalyptus Cloud
Today, October 26, 2012 Eucalyptus launched a new / updated version of the FastStart installer. FastStart is a self-contained installer for Eucalyptus. You download a single ISO, burn to a CD or DVD and have everything needed to install Eucalyptus in various configurations.
The standard installation would include 2 machines, one “Front...
Today we officially launch the next generation of FastStart, the quick deployment solution for Eucalyptus. We think it’s a pretty dramatic improvement to our previous version, and it’s certainly the easiest way to stand up your own AWS-compatible private cloud.
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This article describes one way to monitor your Eucalyptus cloud with Eutester, a framework for testing clouds and Nagios, a popular open source infrastructure monitoring tool.
I've also posted this over on the Eucalyptus wiki for future reference.
We use a simple instance testcase from Eutester to spin up an instance in Eucalyptus with a custom ssh key and security group, ping the...
As one might expect, I spend quite a bit of time talking to prospective customers about the joys of ownership that will accrue from the decision to install an on-premises cloud. To those who are charged with the operation and management responsibilities for a data center, the self-service notion is appealing, but for many of them, it is not new. What is new is the speed with which such requests can be filled by an on-premises cloud automatically, without system administrator intervention. We...
