Knife EC2: Manage Amazon EC2 Instances With Chef
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by Matthias Marschall on August 3, 2015 · 27 comments
by Dan Ackerson on April 12, 2011 · 3 comments
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.
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by Dan Ackerson on January 20, 2011 · 42 comments
The cool thing about technical howtos like this is the ability to share with other folks who get just as excited. Looking to save costs on our blog hosting, Amazon’s announcement of a 12 month free usage tier put us in the short list for migration. As Matthias did the bulk of the joyent public cloud & linode migrations, it was high-time I got my hands dirty. Without further ado, here’s how I migrated AWO to our first Amazon EC2 instance. Let’s get our geek on!
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by Dan Ackerson on October 19, 2010 · 1 comment
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:
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by Matthias Marschall on October 12, 2010 · 1 comment
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 use chef cookbooks in a very special way to manage the lifecycle of your web application clusters.
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