convore.json/groups/django-community/what-do-you-use-to-spin-cloud-instances/messages.json

[{"user_id": 22774, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1301953637.2432561, "message": "I've been debating with myself between using silverlining or kraftwerk, but they both seem to do \"more than just manage instances\" (i.e. stuff that I would do with a configuration management software...) So I've also been thinking about rolling my own set of fabric tasks with libcloud... So many decisions, so little time! :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 529702}, {"user_id": 22774, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1301953447.725625, "message": "Hi there!I'm interested in creating a cloud cluster that should be repeatable, highly automated and easy to maintain. I'm wondering what tool(s) do you use to spin your cloud instances into existence", "group_id": 81, "id": 529681}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1301966319.965091, "message": "Chef, there is even a Convore group for it ;-)", "group_id": 81, "id": 531791}, {"user_id": 22774, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1302029645.5497479, "message": "@coderanger Thanks for the input. Chef is important enough to be known and to have it's own Convore group, sure.\n\nI've been checking how to create instances with knife (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Launch+Cloud+Instances+with+Knife) although I haven't tried it yet, as it brings quite a bit of Ruby stuff with it that I'm not comfortable with.\n\nAny comments on your own experience with chef spinning cloud instances?", "group_id": 81, "id": 544685}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1302033012.9235859, "message": "But there is the Clouds plugin for Trac that you could either use or borrow code from", "group_id": 81, "id": 545530}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1302032992.5068109, "message": "My only experience is using knife ec2, and that seems to JFW", "group_id": 81, "id": 545524}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1302033023.224133, "message": "(Boto+PyChef, no Ruby used directly)", "group_id": 81, "id": 545536}, {"user_id": 6648, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1302068169.0294459, "message": "You can also roll your own using fabric and libcloud: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/", "group_id": 81, "id": 555116}, {"user_id": 14653, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1302080564.1046419, "message": "This is a very interesting question, I cannot believe Chef is the only choice around for spinning nodes.", "group_id": 81, "id": 557068}, {"user_id": 14653, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1302080618.7940581, "message": "@poswald I think @jjmaestro mentioned that combination. Rolling your own scripts doesn't seem a very good idea. How about an easy crowd tested software with very nice built-in features?", "group_id": 81, "id": 557073}, {"user_id": 11827, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17282, "date_created": 1302093822.575511, "message": "If you are using AWS, you could be using CloudFormation.", "group_id": 81, "id": 558472}]