[pkg-eucalyptus-commits] [SCM] managing cloud instances for Eucalyptus branch, master, updated. debian/1.2-1-5-g0975117
Steffen Moeller
steffen_moeller at gmx.de
Fri Mar 12 16:17:17 UTC 2010
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 0975117da0aab1b2aeb92a06ed785296725d4ce6
Author: Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de>
Date: Fri Mar 12 17:17:02 2010 +0100
Some additional description in debian/README.Debian
diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 784efe5..725d9ed 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -7,7 +7,13 @@ by the internet merchant Amazon and their EC2 (elastic compute cloud)
and S3 (storage) services. The Eucalyptus team provides such services
themselves, too, but with an Open Source infrastructure. They achieved
a binary compatibility with the Amazon API as an independent development.
+Being freely installable, students or hobbyists can easily experiment
+with the technology.
+Industrial environment can run a cloud infrastructure without
+the maybe not so theoretical danger to expose their technological
+advantages. Another often overlooked advantage though is the option to
+well-define and archive compute environments for individual projects.
The initial idea behind the here represented concept of clouds is to
have remote storage space. That arbitrary data may also be bootable disk
@@ -25,9 +31,9 @@ shared scripts on the internet.
See also
- * http://open.eucalyptus.com/ - upstream home page
- * http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ -
- * http://alestic.com/
- * vmbuilder (Debian/Ubuntu packages)
- * http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud
- * http://wiki.debian.org/euca2ools
+ * http://open.eucalyptus.com/ - upstream home page
+ * http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ - Amazon's commercial service
+ * http://alestic.com/ - images for Debian and Ubuntu
+ * vmbuilder - program to create images de novo
+ * http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud - introduction to cloud computing
+ * http://wiki.debian.org/euca2ools - introduction to this package
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