Category Archives: Automation

GoGrid .NET SDK Updated

May 2, 2009 – 11:53

Mitch Denny, a member of the GoGrid developer community, stepped up and took over maintenance of the GoGrid .NET SDK.  He’s just released a new version that updates to support the latest GoGrid API features including jobs and pagination.  You can also find Mitch on twitter.
Thanks Mitch!

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Deep Dive on VMware vCloud by Orran Krieger

April 26, 2009 – 13:51

Discovered, by happenstance, an interesting presentation by VMware’s Orran Krieger on vCloud.  Really great information in here about VMware’s perspective on cloud computing, their cloud trajectory, and the vCloud architecture.  This looks like a recent undiscovered gem for folks trying to understand VMware and their cloud computing plans.  It was only recently given by Orran [...]

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Infrastructure in the Cloud Era

April 24, 2009 – 11:28

Great deck from Ezra Zygmuntowicz of EngineYard and Adam Jacob of OpsCode giving a high level overview of how to manage infrastructure for clouds.  The mantra of “program your infrastructure” continues to gain momentum.  There isn’t going to be a place for systems admins and operators who cannot write code in the future.  Unless you [...]

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EngineYard uses Chef, a Puppet Alternative

January 22, 2009 – 21:19

Last week two pretty interesting things happened in cloud land. The first was the release by Opscode of Chef a new open source alternative to Puppet. Both are terrific tools for configuration management setting the bar progressively higher in an area that has been woefully neglected by open source software.
In addition, EngineYard branched [...]

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GoGrid Opens Up API Specification

January 20, 2009 – 09:10

More fantastic news besides the inauguration of Barack Obama this morning? Hard to believe, but yes. Today GoGrid allows all of it’s competitors to copy it’s API by open licensing it’s API specification! Read more in the press release.

Tidbit: The source code for the new cloudcontrol command line utility is on github.

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