RedHat Goes Cloud: Launches CloudForms And OpenShift Platforms

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25 points·dkd903··6 comments

If you're looking for something a little simpler, check out Xenadu for configuring and deploying cloud appliances.

http://github.com/iandennismiller/xenadu

For an example of Xenadu deploying an appliance to an EC2 instance, see Swandive:

http://github.com/iandennismiller/swandive

Swandive is an IPsec/L2TP VPN that deploys to the cloud. Unlike OpenVPN, Swandive is compatible with iOS devices.

Those are neat projects. At first glance, xenadu seems to sit somewhere between etckeeper and puppet in terms of power and complexity. However, I don't see what they have to do with Red Hat launching cloud platforms.

http://openshift.redhat.com/app/ http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/cloudforms/

Not open sourcing this right away is a big mistake, when Cloud Foundry has shown that open source is already going to be where these platforms are. Hoping its just because they cant and have to rewrite code, not because they think they need to.

I imagine they've decided to rewrite some of the code they acquired from Makara before releasing it as open source, similar to the ongoing (?) rewrite of the some of the code in RHEV they acquired from Qumranet.

http://lpeer.blogspot.com/2010/04/switching-from-c-to-java.h...

digitizor.com has a couple of off-putting features. Their ad placement is very obtrusive. And when i clicked on the "beta" link it took me to a Microsoft ad which purported to be "informative".

I thought they would have gone the way to buy those other Cloud companies like Linode or even better Rackspace...

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