Description: Things I've learned and stuff I'm thinking about.
The Eucalyptus Management Console can be deployed in a variety of ways, but we’d obviously like it to be scalable, highly available and responsive. Last summer, I wrote up the details of deploying the console with Auto Scaling coupled with Elastic Load Balancing. The Cloud Formations service ties this all together by putting all of the details of how to use these services together in one template. This post will describe an example of how you can do this which works well on Eucalyptus (and AWS) and may guid
Let’s tackle a fairly simple deployment for the first round. For now, we’ll setup a LaunchConfig, AS group and ELB. We’ll also set up a security group for the AS group and allow access only to the ELB. Finally, we’ll set up a self signed SSL cert for the console. In another post, we’ll add memcached and and a cloudwatch alarm to automate scaling the console.
Instead of pasting pieces of the template here, why not open the template in another window. Under the “Resources” section, you’ll find the items I listed above. Notice “ConsoleLaunchConfig” pulls some values from the “Parameters” section such as KeyName, ImageId and InstanceType. Also uses is the “CloudIP”, but that gets included in a cloud-init script that is passed to UserData. Also, notice the SecurityGroups section that refers to the “ConsoleSecurityGroup” defined further down.