Ask HN: What tools are you using to manage large scale AWS instances/services
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Hi,
we used Scalarium from Peritor, which is now AWS OpsWorks, and this worked very well for us.
You basically create CHEF-scripts to define type of servers and group different types of servers to clouds (e.g. web server, DB server, load balancer, monitoring server, app server, memcached server etc.).
Once this is done you can easily start/stop instances either manually or automatically triggered by an event (time-/load-based).
We managed 500+ servers with this solution.
If you don't like AWS OpsWorks, you can still use Chef or any of the other IT-Automation-Tools (puppet, vagrant, ...)
Best Thorsten
we used Scalarium from Peritor, which is now AWS OpsWorks, and this worked very well for us.
You basically create CHEF-scripts to define type of servers and group different types of servers to clouds (e.g. web server, DB server, load balancer, monitoring server, app server, memcached server etc.).
Once this is done you can easily start/stop instances either manually or automatically triggered by an event (time-/load-based).
We managed 500+ servers with this solution.
If you don't like AWS OpsWorks, you can still use Chef or any of the other IT-Automation-Tools (puppet, vagrant, ...)
Best Thorsten
At work I'm helping build Juju, which is Canonical's cloud management system. If you're using Linux it might appeal to you. A demo of the GUI service management tool is up at https://jujucharms.com/sidebar/.
I'm interested in this as well.
I'm too :)
What do you think is your most important tools for doing this?