Tag Archives: Cloud Management

RightScale Server Orchestration and Amazon SWF launch

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

The launch of Amazon’s SWF (see also Werner’s blog) is a good opportunity to talk about some of the exciting new automation features that we have in the works and we will make available with the coming releases. We’ve been using … Continue reading →

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RightLink Agent Security Features and Upgrading from V4 RightImages

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

A fundamental problem in Cloud management is “how do I get the remote instance to do what I want it to?”. Taking this task on for a few systems is doable with a number of techniques, making it scale for … Continue reading →

Posted in Chef, EC2, Security | Tagged , , , , | 12 Comments

Why Do-It-Yourself Cloud Computing Management Is a Temporary Fad

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

I recently called up my buddy who used to be vice president of marketing at SugarCRM. I asked him if he ever encountered companies that were building their own CRM solutions internally. “No, that’s dumb,” he said. “That’s why they … Continue reading →

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ServerTemplates: The Key to RightScale Cloud Management

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

People often ask us what the biggest innovation is that RightScale offers beyond other forms of server management. The real answer is the integrated approach that puts together all the parts needed to architect multi-server deployments, launch them, monitor and … Continue reading →

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Cluster monitoring with stacked graphs and heat maps

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

Just in time to demo at the RightScale User Conference, we started a private beta of two new cluster monitoring features: stacked graphs and heat maps. We’ve been using them for a while internally and they’ve been invaluable to quickly … Continue reading →

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RightScale ServerTemplates Explained

Posted on March 22, 2010 by

One of the distinguishing features of RightScale is that from day one we’ve focused on automating the configuration management of servers. The reason is simple: you can’t get the benefits of the cloud if you have to spend a lot … Continue reading →

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Top Cloud API Sins

Posted on February 13, 2010 by

… while I’m at it, I might as well… Here is a short list of the top poor design decisions that I’ve seen in cloud APIs. Let me rephrase that… Here’s a short list of the top API features that … Continue reading →

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Cloud API requirements

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

Adrian wrote an interesting post on cloud APIs and whether a standard cloud API makes sense or not. I’m still of the opinion that there is too much diversity out there and that the time is not ripe yet. There … Continue reading →

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