Because medieval and postal have been overdone... I like to conduct experiments from time to time. It's one of my defense mechanisms against the monotony of suburban/corporate life. Here's my latest. Consider this a review of two interesting books, my feeble attempt to summarize them, and my resulting action plan. It all started with an article by Robb Wolf with the innocuous sounding title "How to Keep Feces Out of Your Bloodstream" »
In part 2, we started up an instance, created a volume, and attached it to the instance - all from the REPL. In this installment, we'll start building a library to aggregate these isolated functions into a complete implementation of our use case. Remember, we're going to move faster now so the code samples will get larger and the REPL examples fewer and farther between. We're going to be proactive and split off general functionality we can use elsewhere from our specific use case. »
In part 1, we installed and configured jython and the AWS SDK, started a REPL and initiated our first connection to EC2. Now, we'll look at a real use case and work through the implementation. I'll attempt to show the flavor of working in the REPL to make incremental progress. The Task I want to spin up an instance of an AMI, create a number (6) of EBS volumes, attach them, do some work and shut down the instance to avoid recurring compute charges. »
I've been exploring Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) recently, the existence of this blog being one notable result. This particular post will discuss using Jython to manage EC2 resources. It will probably evolve into a series, as EC2 is a complex beast and several things I've encountered merit separate discussion. When you start using EC2, the easy thing to do is use the AWS web console. It's nice and works well, but eventually it gets repetitive - lots of point-and-click. »
Sort of. Gotta love fortuitous coincidences. As the proud owner of a new blog and domain, what is the first thing you do? Google yourself, of course. Did they index me? Well, not only did they index me - I discovered a link to my finish video from the 2010 Twin Cities Marathon. Sweet! I had no idea they published this stuff, let alone indexed it by runner. Now, lest you start to think I'm blowing my horn here I urge you to watch Dave's finish video. »