[Announce] RightScale supports new instance types
You can now launch the new larger instances from the free RightScale developer accounts. When you launch an image simply select which type of instance you'd like to launch from the drop-down menu. Couldn't be easier! Well actually, if it hasn't sunken in from forum posts you'll quickly discover that it's not quite this easy because the new machines run a 64-bit architecture and thus require a 64-bit Linux installation, meaning that none of the old machine images work on the new instances. We've made our beta 64-bit CentOS image available, it's called "Centos 5 64 V1_11_3" (ami-fbf31692) in RightScale. You can use it interchangeably with the 32-bit CentOS RightImage. (We're producing a more final RightImage today.)
[Warning, blatant self-promotion follows
] With the advent of the new instance types I sincerely hope you've been building your servers using the RightScale server templates, because, guess what, all you have to do is change the base image of your templates and voila! it very likely runs fine without any further changes. You don't have to rebuild all your images for 64-bits. The only gotchas are packages that you require that don't exist for X86_64 in the repositories, or binaries you may have attached to your RightScripts. We've had to tweak a few RightScripts to get our MySQL master and slave set-up to run, partly because we had to install patched kernel modules on the 32-bit OS, but it was pretty painless and customers of ours have been really happy with the larger instances. If you're reading this I'm sure you're dying to see your own web site backed by two screaming MySQL servers on the "x-large" instances: drop us a line at sales@rightscale.com ;-)
On a non-sales tone, we will be making a regular 64-bit CentOS5 RightImage available asap and we will as usual publish the script we use to create it. This will make it easier for you if you want to build your own 64-bit image. On a related note, an Ubuntu Feisty RightImage should be available "any day now".
Thorsten - www.rightscale.com
[Warning, blatant self-promotion follows
] With the advent of the new instance types I sincerely hope you've been building your servers using the RightScale server templates, because, guess what, all you have to do is change the base image of your templates and voila! it very likely runs fine without any further changes. You don't have to rebuild all your images for 64-bits. The only gotchas are packages that you require that don't exist for X86_64 in the repositories, or binaries you may have attached to your RightScripts. We've had to tweak a few RightScripts to get our MySQL master and slave set-up to run, partly because we had to install patched kernel modules on the 32-bit OS, but it was pretty painless and customers of ours have been really happy with the larger instances. If you're reading this I'm sure you're dying to see your own web site backed by two screaming MySQL servers on the "x-large" instances: drop us a line at sales@rightscale.com ;-)
On a non-sales tone, we will be making a regular 64-bit CentOS5 RightImage available asap and we will as usual publish the script we use to create it. This will make it easier for you if you want to build your own 64-bit image. On a related note, an Ubuntu Feisty RightImage should be available "any day now".
Thorsten - www.rightscale.com
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