One thing I can say for sure: there is no time to get bored here at Eucalyptus. If you like big challenges and you have it to take them on, consider joining our team: I'm extremely pleased to say that Greg just did so.
If you are at Cloud Expo in Santa Clara or in the Bay area, come and...
It is really great to be able to welcome Greg Dekoenigsberg to Eucalyptus. We have always been admirers of the way in which Fedora operates as a community-managed Linux distribution. Greg's leadership is as evident in the quality of the software as it is in the enthusiasm with which Fedora users and contributors interact within its community.
Eucalyptus will certainly benefit from Greg's insights and thoughtful approach to community engagement. Open source software has really been...
Eucalyptus is designed to easily support most available and future hypervisors. As of this writing, Eucalyptus fully supports KVM and Xen. Additionally, the Enterprise Edition supports the proprietary VMware ESX and...
A public cloud is one in which "(t)he cloud infrastructure is made available to the general public . . . and is owned by an organization selling cloud services." (NIST) The cost of the infrastructure is shared across many organizations, and public clouds tend to be very large and thus able to take advantage of economies of scale. This means that applications...
No, seriously, he did.
Actually, Mitch Garnaat has written a bunch of stuff. He wrote boto, the excellent Python library that talks to AWS-based backends, and on top of that he wrote euca2ools, which is the free software client of choice worldwide for sending management commands to AWS, and to...
A few years ago, I found myself attaching volumes to instances with some frequency. The volume often came from a snapshot which contained some test data. Like any lazy programmer, I didn’t want to do this work over and over again! I wrote this little utility which would examine the user data and mount a pre-existing volume, or create a new volume from a snapshot and attach that. Here’s the code;
import java.io.IOException; import java.util...
I hope you are enjoying the recently released Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). I recently did take it for a spin, and this blog is about my experience. Eucalyptus has been part of Ubuntu since Jaunty, and I wanted to see how well the latest available version of Eucalyptus integrates with Oneirc
And I am pleased to say that in less than 1/2 hour, you can have your Eucalyptus cloud running in Oneric! You don't believe me?...
There is a popular Ruby cloud library called Fog. I’ve seen a number of applications that use this for connecting to AWS EC2. I’ve done some testing and it is pretty simple to get Fog talking to Eucalyptus. The first thing you need are your access id and secret key, much like you’d get from EC2. These are available on the credentials tab in Eucalyptus. The other thing you need to specify is the endpoint. In...
