Samuel Vijaykumar

Eucalyptus Session at Cloud Expo Cloud Computing Expo - Now we have a Eucalyptus’ Private Cloud installed and running on our premise, and it remained kinda of an artifact in our data-center for sometime. So I thought why has not someone written anything about how make to make Elasticfox work with Eucalyptus. But there were quite a few pointers to what version will be ideally suited to use for Eucalyptus, like this one, thanks Ajmf. I took the cue from there, I enabled debugging on elasticfox, and used firebug to dig deeper. And I came up with Hybridfox, yeah, and it works. What is Hybridfox? Hybridfox is an attempt to get the best of both world of popular Cloud Computing environments, Amazon EC2 (public) and Eucalytpus (private). The idea is to use one hybridfox tool, which itself is a modified or extended elasticfox, to switch seamless between your Amazon account and... (more)

EC2: On the Spot!

Amazon Web Services is out with another offering: Spot Instance. This falls under the EC2 umbrella with new and innovative gambling for instances methodology. No, not gambling, but its more like studying the fluctuations in spotprices and making the right bid. Amazon decides the spotprices on the the basis of some kind of algorithm which [...] ... (more)

Building an Ubuntu EMI: Ground Up

Image via Wikipedia When I started of I thought this going to be a breeze!. But things don’t come easy in this Cloud world. The information is rather scattered; and scratching one itch seems to lead to many scratches of many a itch. But when you have got to the solution, I hope many have already, its [...] ... (more)

Elastic IP: A Learning on Hybridfox

Eucalyptus Session at Cloud Expo Cloud Computing Expo - I know, I should not writing a blog post on a Friday. Forgive me people. I have blogged for about ten days now and it out guilt I do this. There was one pretty good learning, after I had installed installed Hybridfox. This is the one about allocation and association of ip addresses. And it kind of took by surprise. The other day I had got the XPI File for hydbridfox ready and passed around to some testers to play around with it. Basically, monkey test it. And I gave them a much smaller Eucalyptus Private Cloud setup, which h... (more)

Tinyproxy: 5 minutes.

Ok, 10 minutes! We had to setup a proxy server to test our CloudBuddy Personal application, as there were some issues running it behind a proxy. The requirement was pretty simple, so we need something simple as well. So, Squid was out of the question. So I typed “light proxy server” on google, and there it [...] ... (more)