Installing dependencies on system
- Check that Python 2.6 or greater is installed, in my case (Ubuntu 11.10) Python 2.7 is installed by default
- Install python setup-tools and python-virtualenv
apt-get install python-setuptools python-virtualenv git
Creating your virtualenv and installing required modules
- First create a...
The International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) will commemorate its first 20 years with a special proceeding containing the best 20 papers. Rich Wolski, and Steve Fitzgerald, respectively founder and CTO, and VP of Technical Services at Eucalyptus Systems, will each have 2 papers published in that proceeding. Rich will have...
I am working on this Nilgiri project lately aiming to provide a flexible environment of managing private cloud or hybrid cloud to the end users as well as for the sysadmins to make managing cloud simpler than ever. So, someone … Continue reading ...
I started making some notes on how EBS volume creation can be tracked and troubleshot in Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus 3.X + btw). I figured this would make a good blog post, so I’ve just dumped all the information into here and I’ll let Google do the rest 
I’ll update it as I go along and provide more hints in the troubleshooting section, this will also make it into the Eucalyptus Knowledge Base,...
Tomorrow, Eucalyptus Chief Talent Officer and Co-Founder, Woody Rollins, is going to be running an IRC meeting on #eucalyptus-meeting on freenode. The topic: Eucalyptus Culture and Talent. It’s a discussion with company and community about how we build and maintain a strong community-centric culture, and it looks like it’s going to be a regular thing.
I’m pretty excited. If you have any questions about Eucalyptus, come on by. Tuesday the 20th, 1pm Eastern US time, 10am Pacific....
I often sit at my desk, with my eyes closed, hands rubbing against a face in desperate need of a shave, contemplating a dilemma. We face the challenge of building a support organization that can scale to meet our customer’s needs and I can’t help but think we’re missing something. Something that can redefine how we engage with our customers, something that can make their experience that much more meaningful. And just as I feel like I’ve reached my wits end, in walks Graziano with the perfect...
And we’re hiring lots of folks. If you’re a cloudy person, we probably have a place for you — including positions that can be based anywhere. We are becoming a truly distributed organization.
Have a look at our jobs page. Any particular questions, feel free to ask.
We (cpt_yesterday, gholms and obino) left Silicon Beach (aka Santa Barbara home of Eucalyptus) on Thursday and drove up to Santa Clara for my first PyCon.
...In one of my previous post I mention our mantra: "Listen to our communityand deliver quality software". To deliver quality software, it isnecessary to have the QA process as a first class citizen. Our QA teamcreated quite a spectacular infrastructure to test all sort ofcombinations and configurations automatically (distro, architectures, versions,hypervisors, networking, images etc ...) to guarantee our users,regression-free releases. They also managed to have fun in the process (...
The first release of Eucalyptus 3 is out, and it’s time to get ready for Eucalyptus 3.1.
There will be a feature listing for Eucalyptus 3.1 on our website somewhere at some point, but that feature list won’t really tell the story. Here’s the story: Euca 3.1 is the point at which we return to developing code the open source way.
With Eucalyptus 2, we introduced our Enterprise Edition (EE). That code was a fork of the open source edition, and included proprietary features that...
