Looking for Virtual Hosting

[Ed]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Benjamin Francom <bfrancom at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:27:59 -0700
>> From: Lisa Kachold <foobar at it-clowns.com>
>> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> Subject: Re: Looking for Virtual Hosting
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>> Hi Mark!
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>> You can get 2 Virtual Private Servers on AWS EC2 for *free* for the first
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>> 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.
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>> Their free tier includes a good lot of startup resources:
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>> http://aws.amazon.com/free/
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>> I personally LOVE EC2 and have had a lot of fun deploying their images
>> (and
>> mine) in the "cloud".
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>> 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.
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>> Of course, AWS has already integrated OPWorks into their product, and it's
>> very powerful:
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>> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/gettingstarted-simple-app.html
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>> 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.
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>> 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/
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>> 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.
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>> So, while I love linode, libvirt and KVMs, I would opt for a better
>> solution managing your own server set on AWS.
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>> Feel free to email me offline for more info or questions.
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> 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.
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> http://salt-cloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/aws.html
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> --
> Benjamin Francom
> Information Technology Mix Master
> http://www.benfrancom.com
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CFEngine too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NOhGzauQl4