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generate cert & private key

download amazon ec2 tools into ~/ec2

export environment variables

export EC2_HOME=~/ec2
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_15
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/ec2/pk.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/ec2/cert.pem
export EC2_JVM_ARGS=

“-Dhttps.proxyHost=my.proxy -Dhttps.proxyPort=8080″

run amazon ec2 describe images utility

./bin/ec2-describe-images -a

you’ll see a list of over 600 AMIs including the following jumpboxs

IMAGE   ami-70ab4f19    jumpbox-amis/bugzilla-1.1.0.manifest.xml
IMAGE   ami-71ab4f18    jumpbox-amis/mediawiki-1.1.0.manifest.xml
IMAGE   ami-6aac4803    jumpbox-amis/movabletype-1.1.0.manifest.xml
IMAGE   ami-0eb45067    jumpbox-amis/wordpress-1.1.0.manifest.xml

choose an AMI virtual machine software appliance

then run it !

https://www.jumpbox.com/node/1240

You can now run JumpBoxes on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Amazon EC2 can be thought of as a big virtualization system in the internet cloud that you pay for by the hour. So instead of running a JumpBox on your hardware you use Amazon’s hardware and just pay for what you need.

There are four beta JumpBox AMIs:

• JumpBox for MediaWiki - AMI: ami-71ab4f18
• JumpBox for Wordpress - AMI: ami-0eb45067
• JumpBox for Movable Type - AMI: ami-6aac4803
• JumpBox for Bugzilla - AMI: ami-70ab4f19

These are currently available as public AMIs on the Amazon system so if you have an Amazon EC2 account you should be able to launch them using any tool that can launch EC2 instances. If you don’t have an Amazon EC2 account you can easily signup for one using any Amazon account.

Billy Marshall (CEO rPath) thinks that walled gardens will ultimately be overshadowed by clouds because you cannot achieve webscale computing if every application has to run on a server owned by Google … The faster we take the market to cloud computing, the sooner we can kill off the walled gardens through webscale shadows that deprive them of economic sunlight.