[Building Sakai] Sakai in the cloud

[John Bush]

To handle your 2nd concern, you need a good configuration management
tool, check out http://puppetlabs.com/.

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Jaques Smith <jaques at opencollab.co.za> wrote:
> Thanks guys,
>
> Yip, I have two concerns, performance and configuration.
> With performance I guess things like Samigo that does some heavy single
> thread work will be slow. Also the many db calls.
> For configuration, how do you manage the small different settings between
> instances (especially creating and destroying instances)?  Also Aaron, if
> you say it should be treated as disposable/temporary, still you should have
> a "master" that is always up and can do the grunt email/webservice and so
> on?
>
> Cheers,
> Jaques
>
>
>
> On 17 August 2012 18:02, Mark J. Norton <markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have provided Sakai hosting using GoGrid (gogrid.com) to several of my
>> clients.  As Aaron suggested, it's pretty straightforward once the instance
>> has been created.  The trick to cloud computing is to manage it's resources
>> and up-time based on demand.  Amazon EC2 and most others (including GoGrid)
>> provide tools to do this manually or programmatically.
>>
>> One other thing that a cloud computing environment offers is the ability
>> to scale automatically (provided you the scripts to add additional instances
>> in place).  That's potentially a big deal if you expect to see big spikes in
>> use.  It should be noted that using hosted cloud solutions tend to be more
>> expensive than conventional hosted solutions.  Still, generally cheaper than
>> hosting it in your own data center (taking total cost of ownership into
>> account).
>>
>> - Mark Norton
>>   Nolaria Consulting
>>
>>
>> On 8/17/2012 11:27 AM, Jaques Smith wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Is anybody running Sakai CLE in a cloud environment? Where, what, how?
>> Is there any pitfalls, problems?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jaques
>>
>>
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