http://www.cloudmess.com Cleaning up the cloud since 2008 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:04:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rob Booth at Zenoss has been looking at extending and improving some of the Zenoss-specific shorcomings of the Zenoss barclamp I posted about a few days ago. He's got a great blog post about the issues he's running into with the barclamp and Crowbar in general. If you're following the ... http://www.cloudmess.com/2012/02/03/the-zenoss-view-of-crowbar-and-our-little-barclamp/ Recently I've been working with DTO Solutions and Zenoss to develop a barclamp for Crowbar to monitor your Crowbar installation with Zenoss instead of Nagios, if you're into the ease and smooth goodness of a premium monitoring solution. (They didn't pay me to say that. I just thought it was ... http://www.cloudmess.com/2012/01/25/installing-zenoss-via-crowbar/ So if you ever have a need to set the hostname of a newly provisioned Red Hat style box from your reverse dns PTR record that you've assigned to that machine (ideally through DHCP) here you go: sed -i s/localhost.localdomain/`host \`ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:'| cut -d: -f2 | ... http://www.cloudmess.com/2010/03/26/hairiest-one-liner-ive-ever-written/ So I've been doing a lot of contract consulting lately, which is about to wrap up. I've been working with and for some movers and shakers in the cloud world, including John Willis (a good buddy and all-around great guy) and Randy Bias (cloud guru extraordinaire). I've had a great ... http://www.cloudmess.com/2010/03/17/your-own-cloud/ Sören Bleikertz has been poking around EC2 instances and found some nice ways of seeing what's under the hood. Check it out at his blog. http://www.cloudmess.com/2010/02/05/insight-into-the-structure-of-ec2/ and I missed a lot. First: a confession. I'm a sporadic blogger at best, so you won't see me posting early and often here. Meat: I missed manifestogate. I was following it via twitter (I'm @keithhudgins) that I caught from John Willis, and picked up Reuven Cohen who is, unbeknownst to me, ... http://www.cloudmess.com/2009/04/14/been-away-a-few-weeks/ Got this from Infoworld who got it from Microsoft at the Mix09 conference that Microsoft's supporting PHP on Azure. Whoa. Supported open-source environment on Azure?!? They're talking about their FastCGI environment running other stacks, too. Ruby was mentioned. My mind is officially blown. http://www.cloudmess.com/2009/03/24/azure-not-just-for-net-anymore/ I just came across this blog post from Tim Bray, which gives some good insider-perspective on what Sun's got building for a cloud offering. I'm intrigued: It's not a hosted-application-cloud, it's a real, honest-to-goodness IT virtual datacenter cloud a-la Amazon EC2. They're developing an open api to control the thing. More on ... http://www.cloudmess.com/2009/03/20/suns-early-steps-into-a-cloud-offering/ Sometimes you need a system backup. Other times, you need to launch your box ten times. Maybe you're working on your new web cluster and need to build an image for your web server role. There's tons of reasons, but if you're using Amazon EC2, there will come a time when ... http://www.cloudmess.com/2009/03/11/snapshot-your-ec2-instance-to-s3/ I knew I was missing something when I was listing out some hosting providers for developer-focused cloud app hosting, so here goes: Morph AppSpace is a paid hosting service with some cloudlike features - you can pay by the 'cube' or hosting unit - kinda like an Amazon EC2 Compute Unit ... http://www.cloudmess.com/2009/02/11/another-developer-focused-apphost/