As you may know, jclouds is an open source framework that deals with abstraction and runtime portability of cloud apis. For example, our blobstore and compute features help avoid some lock-in to APIs such as Amazon S3 and EC2, yet still give you access to the underlying service for those features that are not portable. Our runtime allows you to use the best features of your runtime without affecting how you write code. For example, our Google App Engine module uses the asynchronous http library native to that platform, in lieu of spawning threads.
Recently, we've been working on Opscode Chef support, which gives you a global, collaborative environment for systems configuration and integration. You can create reusable cookbooks that bootstrap machines and layer on the right software and settings for your application. You can invite your team to configure a role for your application complete with properties relevant for that environment. You can also perform searches across your infrastructure to see if any nodes haven't "checked in" lately. One interesting use case for Chef is centrally managing platform configuration such as servlet environments. For example, you can place data such as encrypted keys, locations of datasources, etc, in Chef. You can then use jclouds-chef to connect that to your java configuration process (ex. Guice or Spring). Next Friday morning, I'll review an example of how to do this inside the Google App Engine, although this is equally applicable in other context. If you are interested, join the webcast next Friday 6 August at 08:00 PDT and find out more! http://ow.ly/2hp1A Regards, -Adrian Cole founder jclouds evangelist @ Opscode -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
