Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud
Private clouds offer immediacy and elasticity in your own IT infrastructure. Using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, you can experience the benefits of cloud computing behind your firewall. Deploy workloads and have them running immediately. Grow or shrink computing capacity to meet the needs of your application.
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The following steps provide an overview of the process of setting up a private cloud using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. Detailed and complete instruction is available here.
InstallInstall Ubuntu Server Edition and select 'Install Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud You will need to do this for your Cloud Controller Server and for at least one node server.
AccessAccess the UEC admin console through your web browser to create your account.
You will be given the URL for the admin console during your installation.
Set up securitySet up security on your UEC account to manage and access your service.
Set up your cloudDownload and install a tool to allow you to start and stop instances.
You can use either Elastic Fox or Euca2ools for free. Euca2ools is open source and comes with Ubuntu Server.
You can also use a management tool like Canonical's Landscape, Rightscale or Cohesive.
Add applicationsUse the image store on UEC to select the machine image you need.
Alternatively, you can download machine images.
ManageUse your selected tool to choose and start your machine instances.
You will also use this tool to manage your instances in future.
CustomizeAccess your instances to set up the applications you want to provide on your cloud instance from any location
Consider your support options- There are forums in the community dedicated to discussing cloud topics, as well as IRC in the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode
- Detailed and complete instructions on setting up a private cloud using UEC.
- Canonical offers a training course on Cloud Computing
- If you need professional support for your organisation, Canonical offer business hours and 24x7 coverage for a specific number of machines or an entire site.
- If you need consultancy, Canonical consultants can work with you at each stage of the cloud-building process: assessment, proof of concept, deployment and audit.
