It sounds like Microsoft is trying to build a cloud environment by creating cloud versions of its various offerings, rather than what we will need for testing, which is to emulate users' environments as precisely as possible. I think we're looking for a setup where we have a stable of VM's available, which we can fire up as the tests that need them run. I'm expecting we'd need to build the infrastructure for allocating VM's to tests and starting them, also maybe cloning them with different IP addresses. We'll of course need to set up each VM by hand, but my hope is that if we are clever we can figure out ways of doing this just once per kind of instance.
Does anyone know whether Amazon supports an infrastructure like this? Karl On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Shinichiro Abe <[email protected]> wrote: > There are two ways about domain controller, > Active Directory Federation Service and Windows Azure Connect, perhaps. > > I will read below about Windows Azure Connect . > But now I do not have ideas at all, sorry. > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg433016.aspx > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg454720.aspx > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazureconnectivity/thread/fc858c4f-1e0f-4ea7-8276-d596ba3a5f06 > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows_azure_connect_team_blog/archive/2010/12/10/domain-joining-windows-azure-roles.aspx > http://engineermemo.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/vm-role-%E3%82%92-active-directory-%E3%83%89%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AB%E5%8F%82%E5%8A%A0/ > > Shinichiro Abe > > On 2011/05/11, at 9:22, Karl Wright wrote: > >> I seem to recall that Azure is available for free though MSDN, which >> means it is likely to be affordable. Can you find out more details? >> How do you go about setting up a semi-permanent instance of (say) a >> domain controller? >> >> Karl >> >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Shinichiro Abe >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What about Windows Azure? >>> It seems that it can deploy MS products and use java, >>> I do not know the details though. >>> Isn't it relevant? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Shinichiro Abe >>> >>> On 2011/05/10, at 20:08, Karl Wright wrote: >>> >>>> I've pretty much given up on getting access to the testing >>>> infrastructure I originally built for ManifoldCF that is now owned by >>>> qBase. I was wondering if anyone had time or energy to research what >>>> it would take to build such an infrastructure using Amazon cloud >>>> servers. Basically, we'd need at least one active directory domain >>>> controller instance for each configuration (LM, NTLMv1, NTLMv2 NTLM2 >>>> session), and a repository server per domain (or more, depending on >>>> whether we can get some of these repositories to coexist with each >>>> other). I would start with a SharePoint instance and CIFS share on >>>> each such server, and we can grow from there. >>>> >>>> What we'll also need is some kind of allocation mechanism so that >>>> anybody can run tests anywhere, provided they have internet access, >>>> and not collide with *other* people running tests. Any ideas? >>>> >>>> Karl >>> >>> > >
