On Tuesday, February 02, 2016 03:59:35 PM Thomas Sigurdsen wrote:
> On 02/02/2016 02:50 PM, Grant wrote:
> >>>>>>>> I need to run a Java 8 app remotely.  Can this be done on Gentoo?
> >> 
> >> Bummer.  FYI guys, Amazon Workspaces, Amazon Appstream, and Microsoft
> >> Azure RemoteApp kinda work the way I've described but they all have
> >> limitations which exclude them from working for me in this case.  It
> >> looks like I'll be admin'ing another remote Gentoo system for this.
> > 
> > Do any cloud VM providers have Gentoo as an OS option?  If not, is there a
> > good one that lets you install your own OS?
> > 
> > BTW since Java is a VM I'm surprised there is no service that lets you
> > just
> > upload a Java app and run it remotely on the service without any OS
> > management.  Am I missing anything there?
> > 
> > - Grant
> 
> linode.com and kimsufi.com lets you install gentoo. There might be many
> more.

Yes, plenty.
It depends where you need them to be located.

> You might want to look into something like cfengine, puppet or chef to
> lessen your workload of running multiple machines.

Or Ansible. There are some on this list that use that to maintain multiple 
Gentoo boxes.

> I've used linode for a couple years and its never been any problem, I do
> see that I'm probably paying for more than I need, but that's another story.

--
Joost

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