Question: Cloudman Automates Cluster Customization
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Enis Afgan • 680 wrote:
Hello all,
A new version of CloudMan has just been released. The two most
prominent
changes in this release include:
1. Support for automated persistance of modifications to the
underlying file
systems
2. Support for CloudBioLinux clusters on Ubuntu 11.04
1. CloudMan has supported customization of individual instances from
its
initial release but the most recent changes automates the process.
This
advance continues to promote use of CloudMan as a platform; you can
use
CloudMan with all of the infrastructure management capabilities as
well as
installed and configured Galaxy to customize your own instance by
adding
your own tools or tools that are not part of the default
configuration.
Complete instructions on how to use this feature are now available on
Galaxy's wiki:
http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Cloud/Customize%20Galaxy%20Cloud
2. CloudBioLinux offers an AMI on AWS with a pre-configured BioLinux
and now
CloudMan as well. In the past, CloudMan's AMI has been built on top of
the
CloudBioLinux and thus offered all of the features of CloudBioLinux.
As of
recently though, CloudBioLinux AMI build process itself includes
CloudMan.
As a result, there is now an AMI (ami-dfc502b6) with CloudBiolinux,
CloudMan, and Galaxy available on Ubuntu 11.04. Details about
CloudBioLinux
are available at http://cloudbiolinux.org/.