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Jim,<br>
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What do you mean: You will replace Sat Server with Foreman, or you
will replace Sat Server with a newer version? Have not yet played
with Foreman.<br>
<br>
Leam,<br>
<br>
What I did (am doing) to solve the same thing is this: buying 10
NUCs w/Celeron dual core, virtual capable. And thus I can load a
"fully" functional version of ubuntu OpenStack, or a CentOS version
(using JUJU for the first and Foreman for the second). Price tag on
that is about $2800. Not chump change, but not a room full of loud
heaters either. Shhhh, don't tell my wife.<br>
<br>
No idea if this is going to be a good idea, but the thought of
having a room full of "servers" that take up a small footprint
hanging on my wall and costing me $11 in power per year just
"seemed" smart.<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/15/2014 09:07 AM, Jim Kinney
wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I went the route of getting a pair of high core,
virtualization capable servers and loading ovirt for VM
management. Now I can create and trash vms as needed. <br>
I grabbed a 4 chip 8 core Opteron supermicro with 32G off eBay
for less than $400 and a dual chip quad core Intel Dell with 32G
for $180. Both had no drives so that break point is new
hardware.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Looking at foreman for bare metal provisioning for VM
stack. Uses puppet as core. Will replace RHEL satellite server
in next iteration. Whole stack of new stuff involved in that.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 15, 2014 8:37 AM, "Leam Hall" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com">leamhall@gmail.com</a>>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've been
working on changing my philosophy for a while now, and it's
rough. Moving from "must hand do everything" to learning
Puppet. Accepting that a perfectly tuned platform tomorrow is
less useful than a functional one today.<br>
<br>
My next hurdle is moving personal development platforms off my
personal hardware. It's been nice to have stuff running on my
own laptop but at the same time the hardware is old, the OS is
old (but duplicates work OS), and I'm getting old. I don't
want to have to rebuild everything when the disk takes a dive.<br>
<br>
Yeah, I have backups. But everything slows to a crawl when I
have to restore to get everything done, and then to find the
one bit I forgot to backup.<br>
<br>
Any good recommendations for small instance cloud providers? I
know AWS and Rackspace but have not paid attention to others
yet. My goal is to spin up servers, learn Puppet and stuff,
and spin them down. Only paying for uptime. RAM and disk needs
are pretty minimal. However, even an AWS micro instance is
~$60/month if you forget that you have it and forget that it's
on...<br>
<br>
So, I could use a place to play that's not on my old hardware.
Thoughts?<br>
<br>
Leam<br>
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