DevOps in the Cloud

Screencast on Scripted Infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation and Chef

 

Elastic Operations - Scale Engineers in the Cloud

I’m happy to announce that we’re now offering Elastic Operations.  Elastic Operations is a managed service that eliminates all your hardware and replaces it with a reliable, scalable cloud supported by Operations Engineers. 

You get self-service provisioning, build, deployment, database administration, issue tracking, and system monitoring -- all managed by our expert engineers at one flat rate per month.

Your flat rate is based on the number of applications you’d like to manage with Elastic Operations.  And you can scale these experts up and down on a monthly basis, just like you do with Cloud Computing.

We offer various flat-rate plans for development operations, testing, and production. By utilizing 100% automation and the commodization of hardware via the cloud, we offer drastically reduced prices over traditional operations teams who manage data centers.

What applications would you like to manage better?  Sign up for Elastic Operations today, and your applications could be up and running in the cloud tomorrow. Check out the one-minute video on Elastic Operations here. 

 

To get more information on Elastic Operations or Stelligent, send an email to elasticops@stelligent.com

P.S. Use our Cloud ROI Calculator to learn how much you can save when moving to an Automated Operations Cloud.

One-minute Screencast on using Cloud ROI Calculator

A one-minute screencast on using the Cloud ROI Calculator to determine the costs between a Automated Cloud Operations team and a Traditional Operations team.

 

Fire your 1990s-style Operations Team

A brief conversation between a developer and a Systems Engineer who still runs his systems like it was 1995...

  

Developer: I would like a target environment created for me.

Operations: You need to send an email and we will get back to you in a day or so.

Developer: Ok, sending the email now.

Operations: Thanks for the email. Please send us your requirements including your overall architectural approach.

Developer: Ok, here are our requirements and architecture

Operations: Now, we need to get approval from management.

Operations: Ok, we need to schedule a meeting to go over your requirements

Operations: Now that we've had the meeting, we need to schedule a time to setup the servers and environment. This will take a couple of days.

Developer: So, to get one environment it takes 40 hours of actual time and one week of wait time? I'm going to the Cloud and using a provisioning application so that I can get my environment in minutes instead of weeks!

 

Screencast on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Web Services released their Platform as a Service offering on Wednesday, January 19th. I've gotten an opportunity to play with it and I'm quite impressed. I created a seven-minute screencast that takes you through the steps to deploy and configure an application/environment using Elastic Beanstalk. In this screencast, you'll see how easy it was to get a Hudson CI server up and running in an EC2 environment. Furthermore, Elastic Beanstalk provides automatic scaling, monitoring, configuration right 'out of the box'. It's worth checking out.