[ale] Difficulty of philosophy changes

[Jim Kinney]

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.
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.

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.
On Nov 15, 2014 8:37 AM, "Leam Hall" <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> So, I could use a place to play that's not on my old hardware. Thoughts?
>
> Leam
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