Amazon EC2 UI

[Khazret Sapenov]

Guys,

What do you think about creating web ui to manage some aspects of EC2, similar to their FireFox extension ?

 

cheers,

Khaz

[Brian Holmes]

Hey Khaz,
Are you talking about building flex components that connect to AWS
services? We've floated the idea around. It definitely wouldn't be too
hard. If there's interest in it we're open to spending time on it.


Brian..

[jeremy mooer]

B, Khaz.... I say why not?  B, let's talk about this tonight or tomorrow and build it this weekend if you have time... I have some crappy work to do this weekend, but we should be able to spit it out quickly if we tackle it together.

Thanks for the suggestion Khaz,
Jeremy

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[Khazret Sapenov]

We could build lightweight basic interface for starters (all of us have work to do) and maybe provide support later for company who would be brave enough to offer service similar to rightscale.

[jeremy mooer]

For sure.  I was also looking through the ec2 libraries available.  Brian might want to play w/ google appengine and use the python libs, which would be a good learning experience for me as my python experience is next-to-nothing (though it looks easy enough).  The downside: It looks as though when new EC2 API rollouts happen, the Java libs are updated much more quickly, so java is probably where it's at.

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=552
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=352

I have to go to work, so I'll talk to you later,
Jeremy

[Brian Holmes]

@Jer,
I don't think something like that should be dependent to a running
instance on ec2. It can just be flex based.

Khaz, I've already got flex based controls for S3. I was already going
to pull them into our flex sdk. I can start looking at getting the
ec2 controls in place this weekend.


brian..

On Apr 25, 10:03 am, "jeremy mooer" <jeremy.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For sure. I was also looking through the ec2 libraries available. Brian
> might want to play w/ google appengine and use the python libs, which would
> be a good learning experience for me as my python experience is
> next-to-nothing (though it looks easy enough). The downside: It looks as
> though when new EC2 API rollouts happen, the Java libs are updated much more
> quickly, so java is probably where it's at.
>

> http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=552http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=352

>
> I have to go to work, so I'll talk to you later,
> Jeremy
>

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Khazret Sapenov <sape...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We could build lightweight basic interface for starters (all of us have
> > work to do) and maybe provide support later for company who would be brave
> > enough to offer service similar to rightscale.
>

> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:52 AM, jeremy mooer <jeremy.mo...@gmail.com>

> > wrote:
>
> > > B, Khaz.... I say why not? B, let's talk about this tonight or tomorrow
> > > and build it this weekend if you have time... I have some crappy work to do
> > > this weekend, but we should be able to spit it out quickly if we tackle it
> > > together.
>
> > > Thanks for the suggestion Khaz,
> > > Jeremy
>

> > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Khazret Sapenov <sape...@gmail.com>

[Khazret Sapenov]

Jeremy,

We might create flex stubs, that work against REST endpoints being independent of language.

 

Brian,

cool, I also seen some interesting components like uploader at nirvanix site, so we can also add nirvanix support.

[Brian Holmes]

Hey guys,

After thinking about how best to create an EC2 UI, I think it's best
to go with an Air application. It'd be nice to have it in a flex
application, but for security reasons, i think it'd be best in an air
application. The user can store their amazon keys on their local
computer. The flex app needs to generate a signature. I've started an
air application that i'll be checking into source safe soon. I want to
continue to use the smashed apples sdk to define the api's and just
have the air app generate and pass the signature.

Also, besides managing EC2, I'd like the same air application to be
able to have tools to help manager Google App Engine apps, have hook
ups for the google json api's and possibly code generation.

Anyways, I'm just think aloud here. I'll have the air app checked in
soon.

Brian..

On Apr 25, 10:57 am, "Khazret Sapenov" <sape...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeremy,
> We might create flex stubs, that work against REST endpoints being
> independent of language.
>
> Brian,
> cool, I also seen some interesting components like uploader at nirvanix
> site, so we can also add nirvanix support.
>

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Brian Holmes <brian.josep...@gmail.com>

> wrote:
>
>
>
> > @Jer,
> > I don't think something like that should be dependent to a running
> > instance on ec2. It can just be flex based.
>
> > Khaz, I've already got flex based controls for S3. I was already going
> > to pull them into our flex sdk. I can start looking at getting the
> > ec2 controls in place this weekend.
>
> > brian..
>
> > On Apr 25, 10:03 am, "jeremy mooer" <jeremy.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > For sure. I was also looking through the ec2 libraries available. Brian
> > > might want to play w/ google appengine and use the python libs, which
> > would
> > > be a good learning experience for me as my python experience is
> > > next-to-nothing (though it looks easy enough). The downside: It looks as
> > > though when new EC2 API rollouts happen, the Java libs are updated much
> > more
> > > quickly, so java is probably where it's at.
>

> >http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=...

[Khazret Sapenov]

Brian,

Air looks fine, I'll be waiting for initial code release to get my hands on it :)  

Probably google engine apps would worth a separate project, I'm still in their waiting list, would be awesome to try it though. Have some ideas for Google App Engine as well, but this is mosttly python, while air or flex would make excellent front-end. 

 

Khaz

[Khazret Sapenov]

guys,

can you add me to project members ? ( http://code.google.com/p/smashedapples/ )

Khaz

[Brian Holmes]

Hey Khaz,
I added yout to the list of group members. I agree appengine and aws
might not fight together. but if you're really gonna do some cloud
computing you're gonna want one interface to manager everything. But
for now, we'll just start with AWS. It's the most mature and we can
always add things as we go.

Brian..

On Apr 29, 8:19 pm, "Khazret Sapenov" <sape...@gmail.com> wrote:
> guys,
> can you add me to project members ? (http://code.google.com/p/smashedapples/)
> Khaz
>

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Khazret Sapenov <sape...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Brian,
> > Air looks fine, I'll be waiting for initial code release to get my hands
> > on it :)
> > Probably google engine apps would worth a separate project, I'm still in
> > their waiting list, would be awesome to try it though. Have some ideas for
> > Google App Engine as well, but this is mosttly python, while air or flex
> > would make excellent front-end.
>
> > Khaz
>

> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Brian Holmes <brian.josep...@gmail.com>