As we’re starting to get into cloud technology in a big way here, I decided to take part in Ubuntu’s IRC training days on the subject, Ubuntu Cloud Days. While the material covered was often more low-level than what we are likely to use in the short term, I found the sessions on Ensemble and CloudInit to be particularly useful, as they’ll be directly applicable to our upcoming GWAS work on the ec2 cloud.
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Ubuntu Cloud Days
Posted: 26 July 2011 by Robert Hutton in System AdministrationTags: amazon, cloud, clouddays, cloudinit, compute, ec2, ensemble, enterprise, eucalyptus, irc, mongo, mysql, node, nova, openstack, orchestra, ubuntu
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Ubuntu on Amazon EC2 from scratch
Posted: 4 July 2011 by Robert Hutton in HOWTOs, System AdministrationTags: amazon, aws, certificate, cloud, credentials, ec2, groups, image, keypair, security, ssh, ubuntu, X.509
Update: I’ve now rolled this blog post into the Ubuntu wiki’s: EC2 Starters Guide page. Hopefully this helps out the Ubuntu community!
The informatics team here at MalariaGEN have been working with ec2 since before I joined them. So naturally, it’s one technology with which I’ve had to come to grips in the course of doing my job. For me, EC2 had a fairly steep learning curve, and after spending a while trying to learn it through doing, I decided that I would just have to spend some time getting properly to grips with how things worked. As part of that I decided to document it in a way that I’d not yet seen on the web: logically, comprehensively, explaining all the strange concepts and quirks that were clouding my understanding and stopping me from getting my job done efficiently. (more…)
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