Announcing new Google App Engine SDK installable Live CD appliance

[Liraz]

Hi everyone,

I'm one of the developers for TurnKey Linux, a community oriented open
source project developing a family of free, Ubuntu-based installable
Live CDs which are lightweight and optimized for ease of use in server-
type usage scenarios (e.g., LAMP, Joomla CMS, Drupal, Ruby on Rails):

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances

We're proud to announce the release of a new installable Live CD
appliance which bundles Google App Engine SDK as a turn-key server
image that can run on real hardware in addition to most types of
virtual machines (e.g., VMWare, VirtualBox, Parallels, Xen HVM). It is
designed to provide users with a pre-integrated, auto-updating, turn-
key operating system environment that is carefully built from the
ground up with the minimum components needed to run Google App Engine
SDK in a with minimum hassle.

Basically this is an extremely easy way to get up and running with
Google App Engine SDK in just a few minutes.

Feature highlights:

* Auto-updated daily with latest security patches
* SSL support out of the box
* Elegant Web administration interface (Mac OS X themed)
* Minimal footprint (120MB)

Full details: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances/appengine

BTW, this type of pre-integrated, ready-to-use system is typically
called a software appliance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_appliance

Take a look and tell us what you think!

[Tom Wu]

Nice work.

2009/4/14 Liraz <Liraz...@gmail.com>

[David Symonds]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Liraz <Liraz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm one of the developers for TurnKey Linux, a community oriented open
> source project developing a family of free, Ubuntu-based installable
> Live CDs which are lightweight and optimized for ease of use in server-
> type usage scenarios (e.g., LAMP, Joomla CMS, Drupal, Ruby on Rails):

You do realise that the SDK is *not* designed for use in "server-type
usage scenarios"? It's purely for testing, and has no real security or
scalability.

Dave.

[风笑雪]

Good job!

Can it run in a flash memory?

2009/4/14 Liraz <Liraz...@gmail.com>

[Liraz]

On Apr 15, 11:46 am, David Symonds <dsymo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You do realise that the SDK is *not* designed for use in "server-type
> usage scenarios"? It's purely for testing, and has no real security or
> scalability.

Yeah, the security features are inherited from the base system
(TurnKey Core).
Probably it doesn't make sense to emphasize them, given the usage
scenario.

Maybe in the future we will make an appliance based on AppScale, which
is a more useful implementation of Google App Engine:

http://code.google.com/p/appscale/

Cheers,
Liraz

[Liraz]

On Apr 15, 12:05 pm, 风笑雪 <kea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good job!

Thanks!

> Can it run in a flash memory?

Yeah, you can deploy it to any type of storage device just like with
any other appliance.