-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn wrote: > Has anyone played with Cloud computing? (other than Gustin who plays > with EVERYTHING). More specific, has anyone tried the Ubuntu Enterprise > Cloud (UCE)? > I have not played with this yet. I must say it looks freaking cool. If only I hadn't switched away from powerful computers at home. I shudder to think about virtual machines running on top of Intel Atoms or AMD Geodes.
> I'm interested in putting together a personal cloud type thing to > provide a "web based file system" - aka a virtual drive that can be > connected to (mounted would be best), from outside my network. I know > there are other ways to provide this sort of thing - vpn's, webdav, nfs, > etc, but I'm hoping to learn about the cloud idea in the process. The buzzword cloud is overused and miscommunicated. It is so much more than Internet based storage. Technically I have had cloud resources for 20 years, ever since I started to dial in to my home computer from a laptop. Functionally I have had my personal cloud storage since I ran FTP daemons on Win9x, NT, and then Linux (of course now I use ssh + sshfs, sometimes zssh + zmodem for nostalgia purposes). Anyway, read the Canonical paper on this. It is loaded with Ubuntu rah rah but there is a lot of good info in there. > > I did find this guide: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Eucalyptus > > But this seems to need some background info in the cloud idea to really > understand. I suspect I'll "just do it" in the next day or so, but > thought I'd check in with the group for thoughts/experience. > You may wish to read the white paper. It pretty much explains all the acronyms, terms and concepts used. http://www.ubuntu.com/system/files/UbuntuEnterpriseCloudWP-Architecture-20090820.pdf > And related to this, anyone have thoughts about putting together a CLUG > cloud? > Do you have some servers and bandwidth hidden away somewhere? I am in favour of it but I see it as cost prohibitive. The big deal with so called cloud services is that large providers can meter us out bandwidth and resources at an affordable rate. A sort of pay as you go arrangement. The Eucalyptus stuff allows us to run these services locally, and then migrate elsewhere if the need arises or we can keep the data in house if we are uncomfortable outsourcing. For the next couple of weeks I have access to a 2 CPU dual core server. I was thinking of doing a test run with Eucalptus before I have to deploy it as a traditional VMWare server. Perhaps this could be a weekend workshop? Between the two of us we can handle the hardware and networking requirements, we would just need the space and power to work. Thoughts? Anyone else interested in taking part? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEUEARECAAYFAkqmNQUACgkQwRXgH3rKGfP3AwCY0KRH1eOKRnhy5GDHDLlUs2fn ogCffG3+YSZfY+9xQ0D8twVMjoSZD7w= =OzDz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
