Turnkey Installs on CloudatCost

scottalanmiller

The One Click Installs at Digital Ocean are pretty cool. They are the only vendor that I know that does that but it really sets them apart for small shops that don't want to take time to built out their own web server from scratch, database server, ELK logging server or whatever. We used them to get ELK up and running quickly, for example.

@Sparkum said:

Ya even deploying stuff like Sophos UTM, monitoring services, 1 click deployments, so many options would make C@C seem so desirable to everyone and anyone (well more so)

That's part of the reason they don't do it. They don't want just anything in there. Like a Router, DNS, DHCP. It opens them up for a lot more load on the servers and less predicable. as well as more vulnerabilities.

Sparkum

@scottalanmiller

Oh ya there, thats what cloudatcost needs.

That but for a one time fee haha

IRJ

Hmmmm....

http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/tools/lxd

Sparkum

@thecreativeone91

Ya that definately makes sense.

Even just some sort of approve/disapprove program on there side.

I would be more than fine waiting for something like that to be approved by a human on their end.

Sparkum

@IRJ

Hmm, very interesting.
Looking into this right now. Thank you.

Sparkum

@IRJ

Hmm, I'm confused where the images come from.

lxd-images import lxc ubuntu trusty amd64 --alias ubuntu
lxd-images import lxc debian wheezy amd64 --alias debian

Would this allow for ISO installs?

For example from https://github.com/turnkeylinux-apps/openvpn

scottalanmiller

Containers have been standard for over a decade. Can't figure out why suddenly everyone cares. Great technology but this is OLD stuff.

scottalanmiller

@Sparkum said:

Would this allow for ISO installs?

Not normally, no. These are coming from a container image repo.

Sparkum

@scottalanmiller

Ah, so probably cant install what I want on top then,

Just add additional bare linux servers (which is still actually pretty cool to utilize resources)

If the ISO has all the RPM's need is the only case where it works. Most distro ISO's don't work like that. Though some do.

StrongBad

@thecreativeone91 said:

If the ISO has all the RPM's need is the only case where it works. Most distro ISO's don't work like that. Though some do.

Like Elastix.

Sparkum

@thecreativeone91

Sorry all the RPM's?

@Sparkum said:

@thecreativeone91

Sorry all the RPM's?

RPM is RPM Package Manager (or was Redhat Package manager, now the name is kinda odd). It's install packages. The same thing you download when you use yum

Sparkum

@thecreativeone91
Ah gotcha thanks

scottalanmiller

Not as bad as YUM! The Yellow Dog Update Manager! Yellow Dog has been gone for a decade!!

Sparkum

On an unrelated (but semi) related note has anyone tried running Hyper V on one of their Big Dog servers?
Does it actually allow you to visualize a virtual?

Reid Cooper

I haven't heard of anyone trying this yet. I can't imagine that that would work well.

scottalanmiller

I concur, seems like that would be unbearable slow.

Reid Cooper

Seems like it would probably "work", but only as a technicality.