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The Cloud Comes To You
By Rodney Sellers
Expert Author
Article Date: 2009-12-01
As many of you know, Ubuntu has released their new version 9.10. It has a great deal of new features and tweaks over its previous version. The biggest difference I see is the fact they have included a cloud system in the distro.
They have included Eucalyptus project's command line "Euca2ools", an open source cloud. As with all things in the Unix/Linux community, there is extensive documentation on how to get it installed and working. Ubuntu has made a guide on how to do it here. If you would like to find out more about the Eucalyptus project you can look at their Wiki.
It is not required, but you can use management tools such as Canonical's Landscape, Rightscale or Cohesive to manage the cloud. It appears that Ubuntu is pushing the use of Landscape for the management system of preference.
This is the first attempt by any company to try and make cloud computing more compatible. Most cloud computing services have API's that are incompatible with each other. With Ubuntu going to an open standard, it will make it easier to develop your own in house cloud applications and then be able to move them to other services with relative ease. It is already compatible with Amazon's cloud service as stated in a recent press release from Canonical: "Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition will also be available on the Amazon EC2 environment as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from 29 October. Having the same images available on UEC or on Amazon's public cloud, means that work done can be deployed in either environment which improves portability and flexibility for users." This will have huge savings in money for users. This allows them to test their code on a private system before they have to pay for a public cloud and do their testing. This ability alone will draw a great deal of developers to the standard.
About the Author:
Rodney Is A Staff Writter for iEntry.
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