As many of my Faithful Followers know … I’ve been collecting old Mac Mini’s for sometime now.
Yesterday I spent almost the entire day attempting to install and manage Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC). UEC has a Eucalyptus core for clustering.
So I got the software installed on the minis (3 of them). One is the cloud controller, the other two are just nodes.
I reconfigured a switch and put them on the right VLAN and built some firewall rules so that everyone can talk to everything. Progress!
Then I setup a subscription to Landscape to manage them. And I can manage them, but need to have a non-self-signed CERT to do so 🙁
I logged directly into the Cloud Controller, and canonical’s CERT is messed up with GoDaddy. After an hour of searching, no one had a solution.
So I jumped over to RightScale. Management works… but they don’t have any Eucalyptus images. No worky.
So I tried HybridFox. Same deal. No images.
I started working with enStratus, but I’m thinking my cloud is a bit “old” for them to really help me, although I actually got two emails from them.
Eucalyptus actually called me too, and we talked, but as I was only doing research, and want to do it on a private cloud, he had little feedback for me.
Overall, I think cloud computing is probably neat in Amazon’s EC2 – where it works.
Private clouds? A joke for the moment. At least with Eucalyptus.
Some day perhaps. Until then, my Mini’s remain @ my /command.