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Elastic Beanstalk By Amazon Made For Easier App Deployment

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing business of Amazon.com, this morning announced a new offering dubbed AWS Elastic Beanstalk, aimed to simplify the deployment and management of AWS cloud applications developed by third parties.

Elastic Beanstalk is designed to help developers automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and health monitoring.  As part of this AWS still allows full control the underlying resources so that you can switch them up at any time.

There is no extra charge for this service to any of the ASW cloud server customers, they pay only for the AWS resources needed to run their applications.

John Dillon, CEO of Engine Yard, is quoted in the press release thusly:

“We’re working with AWS to provide an Elastic Beanstalk Ruby on Rails container that leverages the optimized Engine Yard stack which has been battle-tested by thousands of high-growth companies.”

For more information, check out the FAQ and Documentation sections.

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Data Center Management InThe Cloud

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Data center automation is a hulking $14 billion segment of the enterprise IT industry dominated by hulking giants like IBM, HP (through its $1.6 billion Opsware acquisition), BMC (through its $800 million BladeLogic acquisition in 2008), and VMWare. Companies often have thousands of servers, both physical and virtual, that need to be managed, and on top of that they are trying to keep track of virtual machines on Amazon’s EC2 or Rackspace. A new enterprise startup called ScaleXtreme is tooling up to attack IT systems management from the cloud.

It is backed by Accel Partners, which took its entire $2.5 million series A round last August, and its two co-founders have some serious enterprise startup chops. CTO Balaji Srinivasa was the principal product architect for BladeLogic before it was sold to BMC. CEO Nand Mulchandani founded and sold several enterprise startups in the past (Oblix to Oracle, Determina to VMWare), and was also the CEO of OpenDNS and an EIR at Accel.

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Install rsync and lsyncd

Monday, January 17th, 2011

Next up is to install rsync and lsyncd.  First, rsync is simple, and could already be installed (you don’t need to run it as a server, just the client), make sure you have it with:

apt-get install rsync

Next is lsyncd.  There is no official Debian package yet, but it’s simple to build from source and install.  First off, if you don’t have build essentials you’ll need them, as well as libxml2-dev to build the lsyncd source.  Installing those is as simple as:

apt-get install libxml2-dev build-essential

Now we’ll get the lsyncd code (you can check for a newer version at http://lsyncd.googlecode.com) and build that:

wget http://lsyncd.googlecode.com/files/lsyncd-1.26.tar.gz
tar -zxf lsyncd-1.26.tar.gz
cd lsyncd-1.26
./configure
make; make install

This install does not install the configuration file, so we’ll do that manually now:

cp lsyncd.conf.xml /etc/
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