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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?"
I see no reason to spoon feed you this type of information. Do some legwork yourself.
How does one manage a cloud? With gigantic fans and seeder aircraft?
Permission granted, if that's what you're waiting for.
I'm gonna call this one in favor of Scalr. All that time they saved not typing one more "a" or "e" in their name is more time devoted to synergizing the blogosphere for new Web 2.0 paradigms!
What's the deal with dropping the last vowel of a word? Started by flickr, now followed by hipster software everywhere else.
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 from poor docs to the top of the pack. Which feeds right back to #1 gotta set your goals before beginning to research.
(Chef is basically puppet for ruby but not quite as good, in my humble opinion as a long term hard core puppet admin, although you individual situation probably determines which is superior, such as if you're doing Rightscale I guess Chef is where its at, they're kinda a package deal where they do well paired together)
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Only 12 post at the time of this writting (-1) is this tle least commented article in the recent story of slashdot??