Questions tagged [rightscale]

Rightscale is a cloud management service that allows users to deploy and manage applications across public, private and hybrid clouds.

RightScale® cloud management enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds. RightScale provides efficient configuration, monitoring, automation, and governance of cloud computing infrastructure and applications. RightScale supports 8 public clouds, which include AWS, Rackspace, Windows Azure, Google Compute Engine, HP, SoftLayer, IDCF, and Datapipe as well as private cloud providers OpenStack and CloudStack. Since 2006, millions of servers have been launched with the RightScale solution by leading enterprises including the Associated Press, CBS Interactive, Intercontinental Hotels Group, PBS, and Zynga

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Any thoughts on RightScale and Scalr for dynamic Ec2 instance management

I'm looking for a cost effective tool for managing an web app on Ec2. Rightscale seems to the big dog and charges for it. Scalr looks like a more cost effective solution but it's hard to find out any real customer experiences.. The key aspects I'm…
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How do I save cookies from RestResponse and pass them to the next RestRequest?

If anyone could help me out with my issue, I would be really thankful. I have written a C# code using RestSharp library to interact with RightScale API. The code works fine with one set of username and password, but when I replace the username and…
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best amazon s3 gem with rails 3.1.3

I am adding functionailty to our website so users can upload pictures to our site and I'm going to use amazon s3 for that. I came across these three gems: aws-sdk (https://github.com/amazonwebservices/aws-sdk-for-ruby) right_aws…
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How to modify a storage engine from InnoDB to MyISAM using RightScale

I'm tring to modify the default storage engine from InnoDB to MyISAM on a 5.5 DB Parameter Group (for a RDS instance hosted in Amazon). But I am unable to change, since the property shows up as non modifiable. How do I achieve this via RightScale or…
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Using HttpClient with the RightScale API

I'm trying to use the WCF Rest Starter Kit with the RightScale's Login API which seems fairly simple to use. Edit - Here's a blog entry I wrote on using Powershell to consume the API. Edit - Created a generic .NET wrapper for the RightScale API -…
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How to get a full path of the running cookbook in the RightScale chef recipe?

From inside my currently executing cookbook recipe I'd like to get access to it's "current" location on my executing machine. I need this to get access to it's cached directory structure. I have a feeling it's located somewhere inside "node[]" but I…
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Usage of rightscale init script in it's EC2 Centos 5.4 AMI

I was searching for EC2 EBS storage Centos 5.4 AMI in the community AMI and eventually I found Rightscale AMI (I think they called it RightImage). Now I have created instance using that AMI, but I found out there is some Rightscale stuff inside…
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how do i get a rightscale or EC2 AMI loaded onto my laptop?

I like to develop locally on my laptop, but want to deploy to EC2/Rightscale. What's the best way to load a rightscale or ec2 AMI onto my local desktop so that i can have a mirror copy of the cloud operating environment that I can develop against?
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How do I silence the following RightAWS messages when running tests

I'm using the RighAWS gem, and mocking at the http level so that the RightAWS code is being executed as part of my tests. When this happens I get the following output ....New RightAws::S3Interface using per_request-connection mode Opening new HTTP…
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Which Open Source Cloud Management Platform supports Amazon-RDS?

I have been trying to use Amazon Web services, specially EC2 and RDS. Nowadays most CMP (Cloud Management Platform) like Eucalyptus, OpenNebula, OpenStack, Nimbus and CloudStack all support Ec2 to a certain level, some do it better than others.…
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How can a recipe get a full list of the server tags?

How can a recipe get a full list of the server tags? or How can a recipe check if a certain tag is set/present? BTW: tagged? didn't work for me
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library/development platform on EC2/Rackspace/Eucalyptus/OpenStack

I am trying to build a cloud VM brokering service which can borrow computer power as VM's on-demand, from the private/public cloud computer infrastructure. I have following goals for my service. Abstract out vendor specific API in to a library…
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Errors while installing OpenCV and FFMPEG through Rightscripts

I am writing a RightScript to install OpenCV-2.3.1 on a linux server. I am using FFMPEG package: ffmpeg-0.7-rc1 I am doing exactly whatever I did while installing it manually on the server, but am getting some errors when I try booting the box…
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Same Rightscript used multiple times on a ServerTemplate with different inputs

I have just created my first Rightscale ServerTemplate and Deployment using a bunch of Rightscripts. One of the scripts I created was to add a virtual host to apache. #!/bin/bash -e if [ $RS_DISTRO = ubuntu ]; then export apache=apache2 export…
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How to point ALB's hesos instead of rightscale?

our company is using Rightscale for cloud computing management and we are migrating applications from rightscale to mesos. I'm working on migrating a application and i'm new to Route53/DNS concepts. I have endpoints(url) for application and can…
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