I've done parts of it but not had to put the whole thing together. You'll need to start with beefy hardware (obviously) and a virtualization environment. I've messed around with Xen some and we used VMWare at my previous job, so have a bit more experience with VMWare. Then the other part of it is getting new instances up and configured. For that I have (in another environment) looked at Puppet. There is also a fork/competitor called Chef that some people like better. Puppet and the like are specifically aimed at being able to write a script that says "I need to create this VM with these attributes, install this OS in a scripted fashion, configure things this way and install this software".
Then you also need to consider backup, redundancy and load balancing, ip address allocation and network management, billing and resource utilization monitoring, etc. Bu the basics of "the cloud" will probably be contained in something like VMWare and tools like Puppet. Cheers, Judah On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Justin Scott <leviat...@darktech.org> wrote: > >> Has anyone built a Cloud environment from scratch? Not >> configured something that was leased. > > You may need to be more specific when you say "cloud". When I think > of a "cloud" I'm thinking of an environment where you can spin up > instances on-the-fly and allocate hardware and software on an > as-needed basis *to scale*. The "to scale" part is important here, as > up to that point you're essentially talking about virtualization with > VMWare, Xen, or some other basic hypervisor. Cloud environments (at > least by my definition) transcend basic single-server virtualization > and put significant hardware resources at your disposal so you can > scale up and out on-demand. I have built hosting environments which > make use of virtualization to better utilize existing hardware, but I > can't say that I've built a "cloud" in the spirit of AWS and the like. > Can you elaborate more on what you are trying to accomplish? > > > -Justin > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345395 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
