RightScale, Scalr, EnStratus: Comparing the APIs

Nerval's Lobster writes "Back in May, I took a look at three cloud management platforms: RightScale, Scalr, and enStratus. Perhaps the biggest surprise was that people from two of those companies—RightScale and Scalr—took note of the article and replied in the comments, offering some clarification on their offerings. (And they were very civil: thank you!) What I'd like to do next is re-visit these platforms, but focus directly on the APIs that the three offer—not so much coding, but a high-level picture of them. How do they stack up? What features do they have? How do they fit with standards? And what can you expect from the long-term?"

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[vlm]

You need to file an IFR flight plan to fly in the clouds. Pilot training for IFR cert requires a minimum of 40 hours of hood.....ie experience (get it, hoodie?).

As is the case with most silver bullets, cloud deployments often resemble controlled flight into terrain. And they always blame the pilot in the monday morning quarterbacking...

That's about all the IFR pilot humor I can offer (probably too much).

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[Revotron]

I believe you mean "hipstr". Oooh! I'm gonna go register that domain right now.

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[TheRealMindChild]

It tends to create a "uniquely googlable" name, as well as a much easier time getting the domain name.

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[vlm]

What's the deal with dropping the last vowel of a word? Started by flickr, now followed by hipster software everywhere else.

Funny you'd mention that here on /.s 15th birthday. You know what stylistic counter-reactions are, like women's skirts being shorter means that later on they'll be longer and vice versa? Ironically, "last vowel DELETION" was a stylistic counterreaction to the trendy slashdot trend of INSERTING a letter c consonant as the second to last letter, as seen in in such famous examples as faceboock, amazocn, slashdot.cocm and most well known who can forget seeing pictures of the slashdot 5 year anniversary party

A pretty good article.

[vlm]

That was a pretty good informative and interesting article. Seriously.

One or two minor issues in an otherwise pretty good article.

Before we can draw any conclusions, we need to first determine what your goals are

1) No you need to do that before you being your research.

2) Not mentioned in the conclusion at the end is 3rd party which might be driving your goals, although I do give credit that inline the article mentions:

RightScale has really good support for third-party development platforms. There’s full support for Chef and, with that, strong support for using Chef with Ruby

Sometimes the most important API calls are the ones you don't directly make. So if you're primary goal is making Chef, uh, cook or whatever, then suddenly rightscale goes

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[tweek]

Disclaimer, I work for enStratus and had a hand in the support for Puppet/Chef in enStratus.

I'm not going to get in a religious war over Chef vs. Puppet but one thing enStratus DOES have is support for both Puppet and Chef. And not some sort of bastardized support either:

Chef - http://docs.enstratus.com/configuration_management/chef.html [enstratus.com]
Puppet - http://docs.enstratus.com/configuration_management/puppet.html [enstratus.com]

Note that the Puppet support requires a small agent on the Puppet master but that was unavoidable. Pup

least commented article

[thoper]

Only 12 post at the time of this writting (-1) is this tle least commented article in the recent story of slashdot??