The Cloud Services team is proud to present a new version of Cloud Studio. Main feature that distinguishes this release is the introduction of profiles and here is a short story of why we decided to invent them:
We assume users have a set of images which are regularly utilized. When starting an instance off an image, certain parameters need to be set (instance type, availability zone and more). Making this information into one entity significantly simplifies the process of launching instances, hence the profiles - easily managed collections of parameters needed to start an instance.
Currently we support two types of profiles: generic EC2 profiles and OSGi profiles.
EC2 profiles allow users to create and keep the settings (launch parameters) enabling the execution of basic EC2 instances with just one click:
OSGi profiles allow users to define selection of bundles and Java properties that will be provisioned to OSGi runtime during EC2 instance launch:
Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Cloud Studio 1.0b4 are available for immediate download.
In addition we prepared several screencasts demonstrating newly introduced features (we added audio comments to them):
* Using generic profiles with EC2.
* Deploying server side OSGi applications. (JSP, Rich Ajax Platform).
* Exposing remote service (OSGi, Spring, Spring DM, Java RMI).