4 .0 10 u nt U bu Fo r Eucalyptus Beginner's Guide UEC Edition Eucalyptus Beginner’s Guide - UEC Edition (Ubuntu Server 10.04 - Lucid Lynx) v1.0, 25 May 2010 Johnson D Kiran Murari Murthy Raju Suseendran RB Yogesh Girikumar Eucalyptus Beginner’s Guide - UEC Edition (Ubuntu Server 10.04 - Lucid Lynx) v1.0, 25 May 2010 ’Ubuntu’, the Ubuntu Logo and ’Canonical’ are registered trademarks of Canonical. Read Canonical’s trademark policy here. Eucalyptus and Eucalyptus Logo are the registered trademarks of Eucalyptus Systems, Inc CSS, CSS Corp., and the CSS Corp logos are registered trademarks of CSS Corp. Pvt. Ltd This book is aimed at making it easy/simple for a beginner to build and maintain a private cloud using Eucalyptus. This is a live book updated periodically based on the suggestions, ideas, corrections, etc., from readers. Mail Feedback to: css.ossbooks@csscorp.com For the latest version: http://www.csscorp.com/eucauecbook Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. A brief description of the license A more detailed license text $ Preface Introduction When we started playing with Eucalyptus in early 2009 and with Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud a little later, we had a tough time before we could get a reasonably good grasp of the software. Eucalyptus documentation, a few white papers on the web sites of Eucalyptus Systems and Canonical Ltd., and discussions on forums were our key sources of information. After we acquired a certain level of familiarity with the software, we felt the need for a beginner’s guide of sorts to help our colleagues at CSS Corp venturing into Eucalyptus/UEC. We started writing a few wiki articles on an internal portal and when these articles were useful to some of our colleagues, we felt it would be a good idea to share the content with a wider audience. The result is this book. Target Audience Our aim has been to provide a guide for a beginner to UEC. Good familiarity with virtualization is assumed, as troubleshooting many Eucalyptusrelated problems requires a good knowledge of virtualization. Similarly, familiarity with Cloud Computing concepts and terminology will be of help. Prior exposure to AWS API and/or tools is not mandatory, though such exposure will accelerate the learning process greatly. Acknowledgement Most of the content has been borrowed from web resources like manuals, documentation, white papers etc. from Canonical Limited, Eucalyptus Systems Inc.; numerous posts on Eucalyptus and Ubuntu forums; and many articles on the web including those of our colleagues at CSS Corp. We would like to thank all the authors of these resources. Preface v License Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. For the full version of the license text, please refer to http: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 for a shorter description. Feedback We would really appreciate your feedback. We will enhance the book on an ongoing basis based on your feedback.