Hi all,
I'm not sure this is the correct list to ask this question so if it's
not, please direct me to the right place.
I work for a startup based in London that offers online energy
efficiency management tools. At the moment, we have everything hosted on
a VPS running Debian in Germany. When I mean everything, it's a
development stack (django + PostgreSQL), a production stack, Jenkins,
JIRA and Sentry instances and all sorts of bits and bobs.
I want to move all this to cloud servers in stages, preferably using
Ubuntu and Juju:
* Short term: move the production stack to its own cloud server(s) so
that 1) it's decoupled from dev, 2) I can have hardened production
servers and 3) it can scale horizontally when required; ideally
using a Juju charm to deploy the stack;
* Short to mid term: be able to bring up functional and non-functional
testing environments on demand (either automated through Jenkins or
manually): assuming I created Juju charms above, re-use and extend
them and call Juju from Jenkins;
* Mid to long term: move the whole development infrastructure to the
cloud; it works well on a VPS for now but once I have it
cloud-ified, I should be able to move it anywhere;
* Long term: world domination (I know, there are simpler plans out
there to do that but this one suits me).
My first question is: where do I start? First I need a cloud service
provider so what should I look for when I talk to providers in order to
confirm that they can support what I want to do? Is it enough that they
support OpenStack or is there more to it?
Apart from the OpenStack community page [1], are there any resources
where I can find potential providers?
When talking to cloud providers, are there typical add-on services that
are worth paying for and others that aren't?
[1] http://www.openstack.org/community/companies/
Thanks!
Bruno
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