I took a few minutes to google a few terms, like "cassandra EC2" and so forth.
I get the general impression that doing anything architecture-y or deployment-y requires amazon-specific steps, steps that I don't have to take on a barebones ubuntu install. (of the 'Do this to get Thrift working on EC2' variety)
That sucks some activation energy away.
The ease/hurdles of VMs on my dev machine, even if performance is a bit of a bear, is still more attractive to me than doing anything Amazon-specific, because it's still all just unix.
I don't want to learn "Amazon", I want to learn [puppet, Cassandra, et al].
hmm. I do cassandra on EC2 and I can't think of any ec2 specific setup that I need to do. Its just plain ubuntu. I do install my own custom cassandra to stay on top, but I would do that on any ubuntu install.
I think he's talking about making an AMI for his particular packages.
This is an issue for me to. It looks like a hassle and the instructions look vague and all I want to do is just setup a VM on my machine and then run it on amazon.
Turnkey Linux seems to make this better.
I'm guessing you're just using an off the shelf Ubuntu AMI, right?
I get the general impression that doing anything architecture-y or deployment-y requires amazon-specific steps, steps that I don't have to take on a barebones ubuntu install. (of the 'Do this to get Thrift working on EC2' variety)
That sucks some activation energy away.
The ease/hurdles of VMs on my dev machine, even if performance is a bit of a bear, is still more attractive to me than doing anything Amazon-specific, because it's still all just unix.
I don't want to learn "Amazon", I want to learn [puppet, Cassandra, et al].