Great - thanks for the excellent reply. I've had a look and am going with Google Compute. It appears to be fairly simple and well priced.
Cheers, Paul On 28 August 2014 14:00, Richard Downer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
