cloud providers

[Brandon Casci]

Matt

With the latest version of rubber it looks like you're planning on supporting other cloud providers. Just curious, which ones have you been exploring? I've just started poking around with SoftLayer. It's interesting.

Also are you aware of anything that is feature-rich like rubber, but for deploying to typical dedicated or VPS hosts? It's really nice to just configure your packages, specify which machine you want to bootstrap then deploy as needed.

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[Matthew Conway]

I haven't explored any yet, just figured it was the right thing to do.  If someone wants to use rubber with another cloud, they wouldn't have too much work to do...hint, hint, nudge, nudge :)

W.r.t. dedicated or VPS hosts, I haven't done anything there, but if I were to be running my own VPS host, I would probably use eucalyptus to provide it with an AWS api, then just use rubber with that.

I probably wouldn't use any VPS hosts that didn't provide an api, and once it had an api, it shouldn't be too hard to add a cloud provider to rubber for it.

I guess if you really wanted to you could manually create the instance.yml file - as long as you aren't using ec2 features like elastic ips or ebs, bootstrap/deploy should work just fine.

Matt

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[Brandon Casci]

I was thinking of the same thing, just skipping the ec2 dependent things.

As for other cloud providers, softlayer is pretty cool. I will take a stab at it soon. The biggest difference with SL, besides the API, is way cheaper bandwidth and storage. Instances start with 100 GB of NAS, and you can get dedicated bandwith starting at $199 for a 10mbit connection. This is imporant for streaming media services. However, they don't do dirt cheap annual plans for instances like EC2. 

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