Scripting IAM Part 2: restoring from backup
Last time, we talked about a way to save some IAM resources on a cloud to a text file as a way to backup this information. We captured accounts/users/groups and policies. This post will focus on using...
View ArticleInstalling the Eucalyptus Console from source and packages
I previously posted some information about the new User Console we’ve been working on at Eucalyptus Systems. There has been a lot of activity and we’ve shown it to a lot of users to get feedback. We...
View ArticleConfiguring the Eucalyptus User Console with a Reverse Proxy
The Eucalyptus User Console can be used standalone, but generally people run Tornado apps (as this is) behind a reverse proxy. There are a few reasons, but most commonly, it is so SSL termination can...
View ArticleUsing the Eucalyptus User Console with AWS
At the end of last year, we (Eucalyptus) released version 3.2 which included our user console. This feature finally allowed regular users to login to a web UI to manage their resources. Because this...
View ArticleIAM Role support for the Eucalyptus Management Console
If you like using IAM Roles in Eucalyptus, there’s a nice option for you to try out. Since Eucalyptus 4.0 was just released with a brand new management console, I thought it would be a good time to let...
View ArticleAdventures in memcached integration
As developers, we sometimes run into problems that are somewhat… challenging. That’s part of the fun of writing code though. I like trying to find clever ways to solve a problem. This was the case when...
View ArticleRunning the Eucalyptus Management Console on Eucalyptus with the triangle...
At Eucalyptus, we’ve leveraged the existing compute infrastructure to deploy some new services. For example, ELB and our imaging service user workers that run as instances. This is useful because the...
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