For my final post in freely acquiring, maintaining and monitoring a virtual root server, I’d like to introduce you to Cloudkick. They’ve had a major marketing campaign going on after being acquired by the folks from Rackspace. I actually clicked through one of their ads while browsing some headlines on Slashdot.
One of the nice features of opscode chef is it’s integration with cloud providers like amazon EC2. Knife, opscode chef’s command line client tool, makes it possible to create and bootstrap a VM in just one line – if you go through a few setup steps. In this article, I want to show you how [...]
The cool thing about doing geeky things like this is the ability to share the howto with other folks who can actually get just as excited. Amazon’s announcement of a 12 month free usage tier, plus the fact that this blog doesn’t run on sugar plums and candy canes, put us in the short list [...]
One small comment for Matthias, one giant leap for our testing infrastructure. In my last post about anti-fixes, I expressed my reservations about selenium test automation. Matthias mentioned the companies Sauce Labs and Cloud Testing maintained virtual test server farms so that I wouldn’t have to. Here’s why Sauce Labs made my choice super easy:
The guys from peritor, who are the creators of webistrano, created an opscode chef based cloud management solution: Scalarium. Jonathan Weiss walked me through their solution, which helps to solve the issue of installing and dynamically configuring applications on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. In this post, I want to show you how they [...]
