• to hack on Eucalyptus
• since it's closest public thing to Amazon available - good for interesting tests
• 'cos generally has been more together and better for testing than openstack (though may be changing)

• server with at least:
  • 4GB; preferably 16GB memory
  • min 20G disk / preferably 100G
• good to have a second server as network control server and so on
• a “vlan clean” network - e.g.
  • a dedicated switch
  • 1024 VLAN range
• private address space - transparent to the network but better if it isn't used elsewhere
• public address space - e.g. 32 addresses - can be faked

euca_cloud_0 blades 4
eucs_cloud_1 blades,5,6

vlans 3000-3999

public 10.8.7.0/24

private0 172.16.0/24  

private1 172.20.0/24

eth0 - tagged internal interface
eth1 - internet external  

Rutger 10.8.7.1 - stand alone for cloud 0 Scott - direction for cloud 1 Ford - nodes under direction of Scott

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_(software)
• http://www.ansibleworks.com/
• https://github.com/eucalyptus/ansible-playbooks