Open source "Cloud Tools" for deploying and testing Java EE applications on EC2

As applications and infrastructure move into the Cloud the need for management becomes more important all the time. This set of Cloud Tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications comes as a Maven plugin to make your life even easier.

Components:
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are configured to run Tomcat and work with EC2Deploy
EC2Deploy - the core framework. See this blog entry for an overview
A Maven plugin that uses EC2Deploy to deploy a web application to EC2

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In addition to Cloud Tools, we just released the beta of Cloud Foundry. http://www.cloudfoundry.com/ . It provides outsourced, automated data center management for Java/Grails applications running on EC2.
You upload your web applications and deploy them on EC2 with just a few mouse clicks. Cloud Foundry monitors and manages your applications. We will also support your applications and act as your outsourced operations department.

[frankcohen]

Hi Dave: Good find in Cloud Tools. It's great to see how quickly the development community has access to helper libraries for Cloud Computing. Nice.

We just released TestMaker 5.3 and include Cloud Testing capability. We started by using the Amazon provided Java APIs, just to realize how lacking they were. Jeff Barr of Amazon himself recommended Typica (http://code.google.com/p/typica) and others. We found Typica works very well and is a pretty easy API for Java developers.

The next issue will be to find something similar to Typica for GoGrid, RackSpace, and the other Cloud providers.

Details on our Cloud Testing solutions are at http://www.pushtotest.com/products/cloudtesting

-Frank Cohen

[dkavanagh]

Frank,
Look at the work my typica co-committer has done for RackSpace.

http://code.google.com/p/elastic-rack/

David