Hi Paul, welcome to Brooklyn and Clocker :-) When it comes to "which cloud", jclouds (on which Brooklyn is based) does such a good job that there's really no technical difference between the main cloud providers. Instead, your can make your choice based on how cheap it is, and how easy it is to sign up!
Services that I've personally used are: Google Compute: https://cloud.google.com/ HPCloud: http://www.hpcloud.com/ and, of course, Amazon AWS: http://aws.amazon.com/ There was a price war on cloud compute a couple of months ago, and some good bargains can be had now. Getting started for all three is probably pretty simple (it's ages since I've had to do it); I expect just a sign-up form and a credit card. There may be an extra step of validation to make sure that spammers and malware pedlars aren't getting accounts; I did get a telephone call from HPCloud when I got started, although I was travelling abroad at the time so the IP address != country of residence tripped a warning sign from their fraud detection department, but it was sorted out in no time. Google Compute is probably the cheapest (Amazon didn't *quite* match its prices IIRC); OTOH, Google Compute uses oauth for authentication which always confuses me when trying to set up a client. For sheer ease-of-use, AWS is probably the one to go for - two simple strings for authentication which just go into to brooklyn.properties - although AWS sometimes has a reputation for suffering from the noisy-neighbour problem (not sure if this is still an issue these days). My employer makes extensive use of SoftLayer, but I'm not sure how they compare on pricing and ease-of-signup. Hope this helps, Richard. On 28 August 2014 13:40, Paul Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've spent the last few days looking at Brooklyn and Clocker and must say > that it looks awesome and I'm really excited about it. > > I want to set up a test installation that has: > > * Docker containers > * Clustered vert.x application > * A Cassandra Cluster for persistence > * An nginx load balancer > * Automatic scalling based upon load - including vert.x and cassandra > nodes > > .... but I'm getting ahead of myself! > > I wondered if you guys had any opinions as to which cloud offering might be > a good start for a Docker based POC such as this? > > Thanks, > Paul
