Pivotal Labs starts new projects every week, and we want to have CI set up, building and tagging releases in a few hours, not a few days. For our Rails projects we built a gem, Lobot, for setting up Jenkins instances in the Cloud on Amazon EC2 with Chef. I’ll …
This video shows how to start an Amazon EC2 server and provision Glassfish to it with just a few clicks and provision both plain OSGI bundles and WAB files to it within seconds.
The cloud is a cheap and easy way to spin up more servers and spin up more servers faster, but what do you do when your SQL Server database has performance issues? There’s no SAN team to blame and no infrastructure team to move you to a new server. This …
This video provides a short introduction to Scalarium. Scalarium is an automation solution to manage clusters on Amazon EC2 and other cloud providers.
Eucalyptus enables the creation of on-premise private clouds, with no requirements for retooling the organization’s existing IT infrastructure or need to introduce specialized hardware. Eucalyptus implements an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) private cloud that is accessible via an API compatible with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.
Grig Gheorghiu shares in this blog post some perspective on his experiences in deploying and maintaining a production database in EC2.
Mirage is an exokernel for constructing secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms. Code can be developed on a normal OS such as Linux or MacOS X, and then compiled into a fully-standalone, specialised microkernel that runs under the Xen hypervisor. Since Xen powers …
This blog post explains how to use the CloudWatch User-Defined metrics with an EC2 Micro instance, PHP, Emacs, the MySQL development package and the AWS SDK for PHP.
