Announcing two nice little additions to the cloud portal AMI tool that should make everyone's cloud life a little easier
Amazon now allows passing parameters to the AWS console to basically be able to choose the region and AMI-ID to launch. This is now integrated in the cloud portal so that you search for the ami, click the link and it's pre-selected, ready to be launched in AWS console. Here's a screenshot
As that image shows as well, you can search now for "cluster" to get Ubuntu cloud cluster-ready images!
Interested to add any features? Have any thoughts or comments, let me know, leave me a word
Just written a nice introduction to Ubuntu cloud portal on Ubuntu News. If you don't know about that, or are new to the Ubuntu cloud scene, check it out and ping me back for any questions or comments
Another rocking day for the Ubuntu Cloud community! The Ubuntu Cloud Portal has just been launched hurray. The portal helps new-comers to the Ubuntu cloud community quickly find interesting information they may care about such as documentation to read/edit, projects that may interest them and so on. In this first release the following is available
Front page: Lists important news to the Ubuntu Cloud community, latest tweets and happenings (RSS). The front page also features the widely anticipated (drum roll please ... ) AMI Locator application which helps anyone using Ubuntu on the EC2 cloud quickly locate the AMI needed. Go ahead and bookmark this right now Documentation: Quick links to useful documentation pages on the wiki. If you'd like to start contributing, let me know Community: Pointers to where you should be, mailing lists you should subscribe to, forums and IRC rooms that should interest you Developer: Once you're ready to start contributing, this page should list all open-source projects that relate to Ubuntu and the cloud. I have added quick links to locate code/bugs/community/features for every project Planet: Collecting Every word written about Ubuntu Cloud on the world wide web (RSS). If you think your blog should be aggregated here, let me know!
This is only the first release, so I'm sure lots could be added. Please do ping me if you would like to help improve the portal in anyway, or generally if you'd like to contribute to Ubuntu Cloud efforts. I've put together a quick video demo'ing the portal
I would like to thank the Ubuntu server and cloud teams for their help and guidance. I would also like to thank Adnan Belmadiaf (daker on IRC) for his continued contributions to this portal. Adnan is a 22 years old Ubuntu user living in Salé, Morocco, he works as a Web Developer. He's a member of the Ubuntu Morrocan Team, and involved in different projects such as (The Ubuntu Manual Project, The Loco Directory, The elementary project). It's that fuzzy warm feeling of contributing to Ubuntu that keeps its community rocking. Let me know what you guys think in comments.
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