[ale] Difficulty of philosophy changes

[Damon L. Chesser]

Jim,

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.

Leam,

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.

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.


On 11/15/2014 09:07 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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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