I am trying to implement a ‘lab in the cloud‘ to allow people to have a sandbox to experiment and learn in; i.e. for devops (chef/puppet), installing or configuring software etc.
I have a node.js server implementation to manage this and looking for sane and reasonable ways to attack this problem.
The options are bewilderingly diverse: puppet or chef directly, or vagrant seems appropriate. But Openstack, cloudfoundry, Amazon EC2 also provide their own feature sets.
Ideally a micro-cloud solution (multiple VM’s per instance) would be ideal as there isn’t going to be any large computational load.
Suggestions most appreciated.
Cheers
After some investigation, it seems that LXC on EC2 might be the way forward:
It gives
EC2 virtualization using LXC
Chef-lxc
Testing infrastructure code in LXC using Cucumber