Look Ma, no hardware! JumpBox deployments without software.
With a JumpBox you can deploy an application in 3 minutes but we’ve recently made it even easier.
Today we formally announced the release of all 38 JumpBox applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. This combination of JumpBox and EC2 signals a new era of agility and flexibility for virtualized organizations; server application deployment, configuration, and management without downloading any software, and almost completely independent of hardware.
Public Amazon Machine Images (AMI) for twelve JumpBox applications, including Ruby on Rails, Drupal, SugarCRM and more have been made available for free, AMIs for the full suite of 38 applications are available to Plus and Premium subscribers to JumpBox Open, our subscription suite of virtual appliances for getting things done.
Imagine: Enabling better customer service, software development, or content management almost instantly. EC2 provides cost effective, scalable computing power; JumpBox provides the application packaged for instant deployment.
Here’s what Jeff Barr, the Evangelist for Amazon Web Services had to say about JumpBox + EC2 in his post, JumpBox – Ready To Use Applications For EC2 on the AWS blog :
“..great for workgroups and web sites with modest amounts of traffic. They are perfect for trying out new applications and for getting off the ground in a big hurry. All in all, this is pretty powerful stuff. If you are putting a web startup together you can have your blog, bug tracker, project manager, wiki, and content management system up and running in the first hour of business.”
Pretty much sums it up. Now go kick some butt out there.
Steve
It is clear that VMWare, Microsoft and Citrix consider this technology to be strategic, i.e., they are investing in anticipation of growth and are evangelizing, although no one seems to have made any money on it so far. VMWare opened the Virtual Appliance Marketplace in 2006 but the downalods for their most popular appliances number a few hundred. , they have not yet crossed the magical threshold of 1000 downloads.
A dominant majority of the appliances involve open source software on Linux, primarily because the software licensing considerations do not pose a barrier for the early adopters. The obvious side-effect of this is that there is not much revenue tied to this market today. Until the major software vendors, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, etc., rationalize their licensing, the growth in unit deployments will be driven by open source stacks, like the ones you are composing and publishing.
Thanks for seeding the market. Great job!
http://sharevm.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/virtual-appliance-a-survey/