Splunk Ninja - Inside the Cloud
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In the last episode of the Splunk Ninja series, Cloud Power, I gave a quick overview of Amazon’s EC2 Cloud Computing services and what they can be used for. In this episode I go in to a functional tour of where I’m at with EC2 today. As many know, I use EC2 for quick, flexible, full-control demos–a bit different of an approach and purpose than the demo’s we have on our website.
In response to the “Cloud Power” episode, Jeff Barr at the Amazon Web Services blog liked my demo video and pointed out how I made a comment the “there’s no pretty GUI” and I should check out the Elasticfox browser plugin. To Jeff@AWS, “thanks for the note, I did know about Elasticfox. I shot that video a few months ago, and have used Elasticfox several times since — (but secretly I still love the CLI)”
For the readers of my blog, and anyone who’s really interested in how I work with EC2, this video covers all of that, from using the Amazon EC2 Command-Line tools, to the Elasticfox browser plugin, a great service called Rightscale and even a bonus discovery a friend of mine made called “CloudStatus“.
As an “up-up-down-left-right-triangle-circle-R1-R2″ combo, I also cover two cool Splunk Applications that are powerful ways to visualize your data that is in a Splunk server: Splunk Replay and Splunk Globe — best of all… shhh… they’re free! Ok, don’t keep it quiet. Think about how you might build something on top of Splunk. Were you aware Splunk is having its first ever Developer Boot Camp? Check it! and enjoy the video.
Ninja out.
P.S. - anyone who wants a “because ninja’s are too busy” Splunk t-shirt, email me at “thewilde at splunk dot com” — I will need your size and mailing address.
Comments welcome in the video timeline, or through the Seesmic video plugin (below) - Yes, you can just record a video and post it — however you’d like to talk back, please do!
Tags: splunk, ec2, hyperic, elasticfox, rightscale, ninja, cloud computing
June 25th, 2008 at 6:19 am
You’ve definitely got some traction in the cloud space with this stuff dude. I was at Cloudcamp last night and talked to Edward Goldberg over at Rightscale, and he was totally fired up about Splunk.
Great job! Keep firing these out - they rule.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Hey Michael,
Really nice video. I am a user of all 4 tools (ec2 command line, elastic fox, rightscale and since I am part of the team that developed cloudstatus.com I watch it on regular basis) and I liked the way you briefed over all of them. I need to give you kudos on couple of items, first on covering the technical content around cloud computing tools so well and second on doing such a swell video. I can’t say I have seen any video that’s done so well!
Thanks,
parikhkc
June 25th, 2008 at 9:06 am
@parikhkc, Thanks for the comment. These Splunk Ninja videos are a hobby of mine. Some of them are funny, some are serious, but mostly I try to put out content that will educate or help *someone* out there. In 18 months i’ve had this blog, i’ve found personally, I like both audio and video content delivered simultaneously. It forces me to take a break and watch. I usually learn and retain a bit better (just like you do when you “watch” yourself write code or type commands in to a shell/command prompt.)
If you haven’t seen my employee profile video, I declare i’m a “Freak with A.D.D.” What that really means to me, is I have alot going on and don’t necessarily have time to read tons of docs. I’d rather have a video i can watch (and maybe even download). Thats just me.
Question for you Parikh… I like CloudStatus. Its informative, and most of all pretty! Are you planning on adding RSS is there.. I think yo’ure build on Hyperic HQ and I know that has RSS everywhere. Thanks again.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:03 am
@Michael, RSS is coming, it is in the requirements for next release and that was one of the first feedback we got on cloudstatus forum (thank you!)
Keep the informative videos coming your use of video, audio and close up view on command line text was intelligent.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Hi Michael,
This is the first release of many updates (hence the BETA moniker). We’re going to be adding many things to the service including:
1. More clouds
2. Personalization - which includes the ability to get updates (alerts via multiple channels RSS, email and more), and to include the information in your own Hyperic HQ install - so you can match up your own application performance with the cloud.
In the meantime, we are publishing updates on Twitter (http://twitter.com/cloudstatus) — although, that site is sometimes difficult to keep in sync due to that blasted whale. You can also register for updates on cloudstatus - this will put you on the list of folks we’ll be emailing with product updates as they become available.
Thanks again for showing it on your podcast - I really like the commentability. Need to check out that software ourselves!
Cheers,
-Stacey
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Great info in the podcast Michael. I like the style of showing your face, but i’d trade it for having you use a better microphone. Your voice is lost on some of these screencasts.
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