Amazon today announced addition of EC2 micro instances which is their smallest instance size coming with 613 MB RAM and priced at $0.02/hour. You can read more about the announcement here http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/09/new-amazon-ec2-micro-instances.html There is a wrinkle though. There is no local (ephemeral) storage so you need to use EBS backed volumes. EBS is charged at [...]
Amazon today announced addition of EC2 micro instances which is their smallest instance size coming with 613 MB RAM and priced at $0.02/hour. You can read more about the announcement here http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/09/new-amazon-ec2-micro-instances.html There is a wrinkle though. There is no local (ephemeral) storage so you need to use EBS backed volumes. EBS is charged at [...]
Inspired by Cloudscaling’s Swift-Solo and being excited about being able to create my own cloud I am announcing the Nova-Solo project. Openstack Nova is the Compute portion of the project trying to build open source stack to run Amazon EC2 type service. Nova-Solo is a set of Opscode Chef recipes that allow you to quickly [...]
Inspired by Cloudscaling’s Swift-Solo and being excited about being able to create my own cloud I am announcing the Nova-Solo project. Openstack Nova is the Compute portion of the project trying to build open source stack to run Amazon EC2 type service. Nova-Solo is a set of Opscode Chef recipes that allow you to quickly [...]
This is a “recipe” on how to bootstrap your whole environment in case of a disaster ie. your data center goes dark or if you are migrating from one environment to another. This guide differs from others in that it uses mcollective and DNS to provide you with greater flexibility in deploying and bootstraping environments. [...]
Most recently I have been working on disaster recovery project where we are assembling documentation, processes and code to be able to fire up our whole environment in the cloud in case of a major disaster. At Velocity Conference I met Wesley Beary who is the main developer for fog, a Ruby cloud computing library. [...]
