andrew has almost finished the work on getting providers by default not using object storage (already quite functional).. The other missing piece is getting DO to install cloud-init into their default ubuntu images, and supporting their variation on ec2 metadata api for retrieving userdata within cloudinit.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Sebastian <sebas5...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah! DO rocks, and like Nate said, can't wait for the real provider !!! > > Here's a quote about that from Kapil: > > Its possible *(although unscheduled atm) *a real provider could be done >> for DO when the provider object storage requirements are dropped from juju >> which is work that's scheduled. The coreos announcement also coincided >> with the release of the new userdata facility on DO (smoser verified its >> basically ec2 compatible) which means cloud-init support. In the future >> version of this plugin i intend to use the userdata facilities as it will >> speed up non bootstrap machine allocation as at the moment each machine has >> to be ssh'd into. > > > Product owner! move this "history" to the top of the backlog please! :) > > Cheers, > Sebas. > > > 2014-09-22 12:47 GMT-03:00 Nate Finch <nate.fi...@canonical.com>: > > Nice! Digital Ocean really is super fast.... my Discourse charm takes >> 21(!) minutes to deploy on an AWS m1.small and 7 minutes on a DO 2GB >> droplet, which is 2/3rds the price of the amazon instance. >> >> Kapil's digital ocean plugin really makes it all (relatively) seamless, >> too. I look forward to when we can make a real provider for Digital Ocean, >> and I can take out that "relatively" part :) >> >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Charles Butler < >> charles.but...@canonical.com> wrote: >> >>> http://blog.dasroot.net/juju-digital-ocean-awesome/ >>> >>> Juju on Digital Ocean, WOW! That's all I have to say. Digital Ocean is >>> one of the fastest cloud hosts around with their SSD backed virtual >>> machines. To top it off their billing is a no-nonsense straight forward >>> model. $5/mo for their lowest end server, with 1TB of included traffic. >>> That's enough to scratch just about any itch you might have with the cloud. >>> >>> Speaking of scratching itches, if you haven't checked out Juju yet, now >>> you have a *prime, low cost cloud provider* to toe the waters. Spinning >>> up droplets with Juju is very straight forward, and offers you a hands on >>> approach to service orchestration thats affordable enough for a weekend >>> hacker to whet their appetite. Not to mention, Juju is currently the #1 >>> project on their API Integration listing! http://goo.gl/m6u781 >>> >>> In about 11 minutes, we will go from zero to deployed infrastructure for >>> a scale-out blog (much like the one you're reading right now). >>> >>> -- >>> Juju mailing list >>> Juju@lists.ubuntu.com >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Juju mailing list >> Juju@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >> >> > > -- > Juju mailing list > Juju@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju > >
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