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Deploy OpenBD to the cloud
One of the things that we have learnt in the last 6 months, is just how popular the our pre-packaged bundles have become. People seem to like to have everything configured for them and the only thing they have to do is start cutting CFML code.
The pre-bundled Jetty instance has proved very popular, but so has the pre built VMWare and Amazon images. But the problem with the large images is keeping them up to date with the latest and greatest.
We've solved that problem, while opening up OpenBD to a whole new world of virtualization options thanks to our partnership with Elastic Server from CohesiveFT.
This online portal lets you build your own customized version of OpenBD, choosing your own J2EE container, as well as your database. Then you choose what operating system you want and what virtualised format you want to build to. This includes the popular VMWare, Xen, Parallels, PXE, and of course Amazon EC2 images.
With a couple of clicks you can build the precise image for you to either run in the cloud or locally in your own virtual player.
But that's not all!
ElasticServer gives you the ability to add more software to the server through a very simple point'n'click shopping cart type selection. So if you want a mail server, or a messaging server, or even WordPress tacked on, then do it. Free of Charge!
CohesiveFT are about to announce support for more cloud providers in the very near future, so deploying to the likes of GoGrid and Flexiscale will be just a click away.
Still not impressed? Tough crowd! :) Well how about we throw in a complete management console that gets started up on server creation, that lets you control all aspects of the system without needing to drop to an SSH shell.
All-in-all the Elastic Server portal will ease the deployment pain for a whole legion of CFML developers and also let those that normally wouldn't touch CFML, let them toe dip with extreme ease.
Check it out http://www.elasticserver.com/site/open-blue-dragon
OpenBD would like to thank CohesiveFT for all their help and hard work in integrating OpenBD to their system. We appreciate it.
Comments (5)
We are no longer supporting the VMWare image -- use the ElasticServer option instead, that lets you custom build an image of your choice.
Link from the download pageI was just downloading the VMWare one to use on a cloud demo server I'm setting up. I like the concept of the easy cloud config.
Can anyone seed the VMWare image a little more though? There's 2 of us sitting at 99.57% complete - and nobody has that last 0.5%...@Jack thank you for your kind words.
We will be pushing up a WIKI entry or two very soon on how you can get into the area of it.Congratulations on v1.0 of Open BD! I have a few questions about installation (ideally on EC2).
I'm very familiar with BlueDragon JX, but not Open BD (or BD J2EE) -- so I'm not sure if there is a preferred J2EE server, linux version, etc for production use. I've spent a good bit of time using elasticserver.com to deploy a BD bundle to ec2, and it seems to work great. However, then I'm lost. In which directory do I store my CFML files? What port do I need to use in the URL (and do I need to open that up, first)? If I want to use features of apache, like mod_rewrite, do I need to install apache? I'm very excited about trying Open BD on ec2, but I'm very new to the J2EE parts. Would appreciate any advice about configurations, and some specific (step-by-step!) instructions after deploying from elasticserver.com. Thanks!
@jack: I've got the same questions you have. I've got this nice BD server deployed to ec2, tomcat is running and looking good, alas, I dont know where to go from here! Hopefully someone will chime in here.