Looking for Virtual Hosting

[Benjamin Francom]

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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:27:59 -0700
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> Hi Mark!
>
>
> You can get 2 Virtual Private Servers on AWS EC2 for *free* for the first
> year.  After that their pricing is STILL alot cheaper than what you were
> paying!   But you will have to investigate that by setting up mockup
> billing as you build your systems and evaluate your needs.  You have a
> whole year.
>
> Their free tier includes a good lot of startup resources:
>
> http://aws.amazon.com/free/
>
> I personally LOVE EC2 and have had a lot of fun deploying their images (and
> mine) in the "cloud".
>
> While you really need nothing but Amazon's own management tools to do most
> anything you might want, the real power of the EC2 and S3 Amazon services
> is the capacity to build up duplicate images and deploy, manage, and secure
> the servers using automation tools.  Gone are the days when an army of
> server monkeys typed for days managing all the little things on servers.
>
> Of course, AWS has already integrated OPWorks into their product, and it's
> very powerful:
>
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/gettingstarted-simple-app.html
>
> However, there's a development API that has allowed others to seamlessly
> integrate their application to EC2/S3 AWS.   CHEF, Puppet, Cobbler and many
> other customized deployment scripts  and tools have been developed in in
> ruby, python, and perl (github) and J2EE.
>
> Ansible:  http://docs.ansible.com/intro_dynamic_inventory.html
> Cobbler:  https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=14590
> Puppet:  http://puppetlabs.com/solutions/ec2
> Chef:  http://learn.getchef.com/legacy/starter-use-cases/multi-node-ec2/
>
> Of course everyone has to get into the game, so we see competing deployment
> tools newly available like *Juju* <https://juju.ubuntu.com/>, the open
> source service orchestration management tool developed by Canonical, the
> company already famous for its Linux-based operating system Ubuntu. What?s
> great in Juju is that it automates the daily tasks that your infrastructure
> requires, and it allows you to focus on what really matters to you. All
> this is made possible by what are called ?Charms? in the Juju jargon. A
> *Charm* is a collection of YAML configuration files and a selection of
> ?hooks?, which are naming conventions that perform several operations like
> install software, start/stop a service, manage relationships with other
> Charms, and more. Since Charms can be shared among different systems, a
> Charm store is available to share and download them.
>
>
> So, while I love linode, libvirt and KVMs, I would opt for a better
> solution managing your own server set on AWS.
>
> Feel free to email me offline for more info or questions.


SaltStack, another configuration/orchestration/automation tool, also
integrates into ec2. I just finished some training for SaltStack which was
all based in the aws cloud.

http://salt-cloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/aws.html

-- 
Benjamin Francom
Information Technology Mix Master
http://www.benfrancom.com
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