{"id":2049,"date":"2013-12-12T07:33:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T07:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cloudthat.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2024-06-25T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:15:13","slug":"eucalyptus-your-own-private-aws-cloud","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/blog\/eucalyptus-your-own-private-aws-cloud","title":{"rendered":"EUCALYPTUS – Your own Private AWS Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you need a Private Cloud solution that’s AWS Compatible<\/strong>, gives you the needed control & security and at the same time provides infinite scalability, faster time to market & workload portability for your applications, then EUCALYPTUS <\/strong>is the answer.<\/p>\n

Eucalyptus<\/em> an acronym for \u201cE<\/strong>lastic U<\/strong>tility C<\/strong>omputing A<\/strong>rchitecture for L<\/strong>inking Y<\/strong>our P<\/strong>rograms to U<\/strong>seful S<\/strong>ystems\u201d, is an open source cloud platform that lets you create a private cloud to provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) using commodity hardware and which is most importantly<\/em> AWS compatible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The core components<\/em> of Eucalyptus<\/em> namely the Cloud Controller, Walrus, Cluster Controller, Storage Controller & Node Controller<\/strong> follow a distributed architecture<\/em> to convert your existing virtualized infrastructure into a highly scalable, efficient, and secure<\/em> pool of resources. An optional component called the VMware Broker<\/strong> let\u2019s you use VMware for your cloud environment too. And what you get from all this is a set of services in the areas of Compute, Storage & Networking with Security, higher Automation & easy Management; all of which are AWS compatible<\/strong>. Even the terminologies used are similar to AWS.<\/p>\n

Some important services<\/em> are:<\/h2>\n
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  • Instances<\/li>\n
  • Object Storage<\/li>\n
  • Elastic Block Storage<\/li>\n
  • Elastic IPs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    And now some of the key features<\/em> of Eucalyptus<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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    • Supports hypervisors like KVM & VMware vSphere<\/li>\n
    • Hybrid Cloud Management (Eucalyptus & AWS resource management from a single interface)<\/li>\n
    • VM Image Management<\/li>\n
    • Snapshots<\/li>\n
    • Security Groups<\/li>\n
    • Key Pair<\/li>\n
    • Networking Modes<\/li>\n
    • Elastic Load Balancing<\/li>\n
    • Auto Scaling<\/li>\n
    • CloudWatch<\/li>\n
    • Identity & Access Management<\/li>\n
    • AD and LDAP Integration<\/li>\n
    • Warm Upgrades & Zero Downtime Maintenance<\/li>\n
    • High Availability<\/li>\n
    • AWS Compatible API<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Eucalyptus<\/em> also provides Euca2ools<\/strong> written in Python, which is a set of command line tools for interacting with web services and are AWS compatible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

      Eucalyptus is easy to obtain and install too, it comes as a core component with Ubuntu Enterprise cloud and installs without needing any modifications in major Linux distributions like RHEL, CentOS and Debian.<\/p>\n

      A formal agreement<\/strong> between AWS<\/em> and Eucalyptus<\/em> means you are able to effortlessly move workloads between cloud environments, and you continue receiving broader compatibility with AWS APIs.<\/p>\n

      Now the benefits:<\/em><\/p>\n

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      • Hybrid Cloud<\/li>\n
      • Reduced public cloud expenditure & increased in-house IT asset utilization<\/li>\n
      • Use of existing AWS skills, resources and tools<\/li>\n
      • Achieve greater compliance and standardization<\/li>\n
      • Streamlined development and testing process for your applications<\/li>\n
      • Increased productivity & Faster time-to-market for your applications<\/li>\n
      • Seamless portability of your applications between the test\/dev environments to production.<\/li>\n
      • Hassle-free workload migration between your private and public cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        In a nutshell it\u2019s your own PRIVATE AWS CLOUD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

        Stay tuned for more on Eucalyptus<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","blog_category":[3606,3615],"user_email":"sangram@cloudthat.in","published_by":"324","primary-authors":"","secondary-authors":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45961,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2049\/revisions\/45961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_category?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}