Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and Eucalyptus Test

UEC or Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud delivers a pre packed eucalyptus setup consisting of all needed components. There are so many different cloud technologies emerging that I didn't really know where to start. After a few weeks of research I found for myself that eucalyptus was the most promising product and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is the easiest way to install and deploy eucalyptus (unlike in other distros the eucalyptus packages can just be installed from CD or from the repository using apt-get). The main advantages in eucalyptus are:

• it operates with different hypervisors like xen, kvm and even vmware (in enterprise edition)
• it runs on commodity hardware
• it doesn't need fancy cluster hardware/setup
• it uses basic and mature tools for communication (apache/ssh)
• it is compatible to amazon web services (EC2 / S3 / ...) which many people see as a kind of standard for "cloud interfaces"

Test drive

• runs on my notebook
• Ubuntu 10.04

install eucalyptus

all following commands run as root

• install the so called front-end server with the cloud controllers

apt-get install eucalyptus-cloud eucalyptus-cc eucalyptus-walrus eucalyptus-sc

• answer the questions from config tool
• install node controller ( I also install it on the same notebook )

apt-get install eucalyptus-nc