Also, someone re-posted this to hackernews. I Appreciate the upvotes if you have time <3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8351651 On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Kapil Thangavelu < [email protected]> wrote: > andrew has almost finished the work on getting providers by default not > using object storage (already quite functional).. The other missing piece > is getting DO to install cloud-init into their default ubuntu images, and > supporting their variation on ec2 metadata api for retrieving userdata > within cloudinit. > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Sebastian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yeah! DO rocks, and like Nate said, can't wait for the real provider !!! >> >> Here's a quote about that from Kapil: >> >> Its possible *(although unscheduled atm) *a real provider could be done >>> for DO when the provider object storage requirements are dropped from juju >>> which is work that's scheduled. The coreos announcement also coincided >>> with the release of the new userdata facility on DO (smoser verified its >>> basically ec2 compatible) which means cloud-init support. In the future >>> version of this plugin i intend to use the userdata facilities as it will >>> speed up non bootstrap machine allocation as at the moment each machine has >>> to be ssh'd into. >> >> >> Product owner! move this "history" to the top of the backlog please! :) >> >> Cheers, >> Sebas. >> >> >> 2014-09-22 12:47 GMT-03:00 Nate Finch <[email protected]>: >> >> Nice! Digital Ocean really is super fast.... my Discourse charm takes >>> 21(!) minutes to deploy on an AWS m1.small and 7 minutes on a DO 2GB >>> droplet, which is 2/3rds the price of the amazon instance. >>> >>> Kapil's digital ocean plugin really makes it all (relatively) seamless, >>> too. I look forward to when we can make a real provider for Digital Ocean, >>> and I can take out that "relatively" part :) >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Charles Butler < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> http://blog.dasroot.net/juju-digital-ocean-awesome/ >>>> >>>> Juju on Digital Ocean, WOW! That's all I have to say. Digital Ocean is >>>> one of the fastest cloud hosts around with their SSD backed virtual >>>> machines. To top it off their billing is a no-nonsense straight forward >>>> model. $5/mo for their lowest end server, with 1TB of included traffic. >>>> That's enough to scratch just about any itch you might have with the cloud. >>>> >>>> Speaking of scratching itches, if you haven't checked out Juju yet, now >>>> you have a *prime, low cost cloud provider* to toe the waters. >>>> Spinning up droplets with Juju is very straight forward, and offers you a >>>> hands on approach to service orchestration thats affordable enough for a >>>> weekend hacker to whet their appetite. Not to mention, Juju is currently >>>> the #1 project on their API Integration listing! http://goo.gl/m6u781 >>>> >>>> In about 11 minutes, we will go from zero to deployed infrastructure >>>> for a scale-out blog (much like the one you're reading right now). >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Juju mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Juju mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Juju mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >> >> > > -- > Juju mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju > >
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