New Shared roles (CentOS)
Not an Ubuntu fan? We just released 4 new pre-made roles in the US East region of EC2, with CentOS as the operating system. For those who don't know what CentOS is, it's a linux distribution that mirrors Red Hat, but without the trademarked material like logos.
This means that you can now scale your website (or individual components of your web stack) easily on an RPM package-based system. Two roles are available, 'Base' (which is ready to be customized into roles like Application servers, or ffmpeg transcoding servers) and 'MySQL' (which is ready to scale, using version 5.0.77). Both are EBS-based, which means that they can be start / stopped like any virtual machine, and run CentOS 5.4 (32 and 64bit).
US West, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions to follow soon, as well as more flavors of linux.
These Roles use the all-new Scalarizr, our lightweight python agent that reports usage metrics back to Scalr to trigger the scaling. More on the Scalarizr in a later post.
Cheers,
The Scalr Team
August 24th, 2010 - 02:19
Great. Which version of CentOS?
August 24th, 2010 - 02:37
5.4
Regards,
Igor
August 29th, 2010 - 01:50
I must tell you I’m a little bit disappointed. We’re waiting for mysql 5.1 for current AMIs. I believe its what many Scalr users need and instead of upgrading current AMIs to 5.1 you release new AMIs with 5.0
August 29th, 2010 - 02:24
CentOS 5.4 has only 5.0 in it’s repos by default. We’re working on new Shared roles based on Ubuntu 10.04 which has 5.1 mysql in their repo.
Regards,
Igor