> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Craig Constantine > > As I understand it, there are two ways to use cloud tech. Run virtual > machines on the cloud (ala virtualization), but what I cannot seem to find is > good material (free, online course, for-pay training, books, anything) on how > to build a web service directly on the cloud tech. Everything I'm coming up > with is either super high level or API-level...
Hmm. You seem to be mixing up two different categories of products/services there. On the one hand, there are services like EC2, in which they offer you VM's, which you can manage exactly like any other servers. You ssh into the box, they're up all the time (or up when you want them to be). You install and manage your own services - apache, mysql, etc. On the other hand, why would you want to patch and maintain all that machinery when all you want is to serve some standard webpages, serve some standard storage or database, etc? So they offer the second category of product/service, which are those *services*. Click on create a database. Click on create a DNS zone. Etc. So if you want to "build a web service, directly on the cloud tech," it sounds like you want the latter. And you should not expect to have anything deeper than super high level web interface or API access to that service. That's the point of the service. If you want deeper access to the service, you probably have to use the former. Create some VM's and manage it yourself. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
