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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...

I wanted to update everybody on the latest with our new user interface.  https://github.com/eucalyptus/eucalyptus-ui

Eucalyptus engineering has gone through a number of changes, as Tim Cramer describes in his excellent blog posting about which I am excited and of which I'm quite proud. The other day, I was speaking with Vic Iglesias (@vicnastea), the person who heads up our QA team, about...

One of Eucalyptus’s oldest feature requests that people constantly ask about is the ability to import a pre-existing SSH key for use with instances. It even predates EC2′s support for doing that. I am happy to report that Eucalyptus 3.2 will at long last support it as well! (See the...

(I’m sure you all know that step one is “cut a hole in the box”.)

We’ve been continually working to improve the install process of Eucalyptus over the past few months.   In particular, we’ve been working on a project that we call Silvereye.  Our most recent goal: make it trivial to install a fully-running Eucalyptus cloud on a single machine.

A cloud on one machine?  Why bother?  Well, lots of reasons, actually.  The biggest: the developer workstation.  If you’re hacking on...

In this video we will demonstrate the minimal tasks required to launch your first Eucalyptus Cloud Instance via the command line. This is the next step from the previous post where we installed Eucalyptus 3.1 using SilverEye.

Note: This video assumes the Eucalyptus Cloud was installed using SilverEye. If your cloud was installed using another method, please review the Eucalyptus Documentation.

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Introduction to EDBP

I had to come up with an acronym.  This is particularly important when you’re in the cloud business, I think it comes somewhere before the business plan and just after the beer.

Did you know that EUCALYPTUS itself is an Acronym for Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs...

IaaS cloud computing software is very complex and usually requires many resources like multiple servers, it’s own network and storage. With the virtual sandbox lab, we built in the previous post, we can remove all of the hardware requirements and install Eucalyptus on a single system and not loose any functionality.

This is a great learning tool. We can build a complete Eucalyptus IaaS cloud, learn how to install Eucalyptus, practice cloud computing tasks, and how Eucalyptus might fit...