Beginning with cloud and JBoss

[markboletti]

Hi all,

I've started learning about cloud computing basics and found an interesting presentation at http://www.redhat.com/summit/sessions/jboss.html

where it's explained that in order to use a JBoss cluster out of box in a cloud, you should at first configure it to use TCP as communication layer (and some kind of other things like Elastic IP Addresses to avoid static cluster configuration).

Quite easy to grasp concepts, so forgive my silly question, what's the advantage of using BoxGrinder and CirrAS ? I'm a bit confused and I'd like to understand if the two approaches (setting up by yourself a cloud cluster *or* using CirrAS) produce the same result, or which is the preferred approach.

Thanks a lot

mark

[goldmann]

Hi Mark,

It's simpler than you think BoxGrinder is a tool that creates virtual images. We used it to create CirrAS images, which contain Fedora OS with JBoss AS preconfigured to run in the Cloud.

CirrAS is no longer maintained, sorry... Please check out Makara if you want run JBoss in the Cloud.

--Marek

[markboletti]

Thanks for your reply Marek, I'll have a llok at Makara project.

regards

Mark