Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Re: VM configuration methodologies (was Re: EC2 alternatives)

On Jul 8, 9:42 pm, Randy Bias <ran...@cloudscale.net> wrote:
>
> Obviously I disagree. :) If it were fragile it wouldn't be in
> production at Google, Stanford, Wesabe, Powerset, and many other
> places.
...
> I haven't read what you said elsewhere about abstraction, but Puppet
> is essentially an abstraction layer, not a brittle scripting language,
> nor a heavyweight XML language, nor proprietary.

Randy, I didn't mean to put down Puppet -- I think it is an excellent
tool and, in fact, we're trying to figure out if there can be some
synergy in using it together with our virtual appliance catalog
concept in AppLogic (still working on that).

On the rest -- copying VM images, we do agree :)

Best regards,
-- Peter

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