<div dir="ltr"><div>I really like AWS. After a couple of months, learning from scratch, we've spun up a small enterprise level environment out there and are quite happy with it. We have a Chef server out there and there are Chef tie-ins to AWS to spin up and shut down instances. And, of course, the aws cli can do pretty much anything that the console can do, so that's great for scripting.<br><br>If you are opening a new account with them, you should be getting one years free worth of the smallest sized instances. Or something.<br></div><div>Enjoy<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Leam Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Okay, so this is a pain. I tried to fire up Puppet Enterprise on my laptop and a couple base CentOS VMs. It took me almost 15 minutes and a reboot to regain control of the machine! The hardware just isn't there.<br>
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My near term goal is to get decent at Puppet, so I need some learning VMs. I can do AWS small instances and pay not a lot if I remember to shut them down after I'm done testing. Or I could buy a server and set it under my desk.<br>
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At this point I'm thinking the former. We're trying to live with less and I don't really care to have more hardware around the house. Well, actually, I do want more, but I more want to do with less.<br>
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