Tech Tuesday

Learn how to build a complete virtual appliance with rBuilder Online and launch it on Amazon EC2

  • Interested in turning your application into a virtual machine?
  • Interested in launching your virtual machine into a cloud?
  • Not sure where to start?

Join us on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month at 2:00 pm ET / 11 am PT for a free tutorial on how to cloud-enable applications using rBuilder Online. Topics covered include:

LEVEL 1: Learn how to build a complete virtual appliance with rBuilder Online and launch it on Amazon EC2

  • Registering for an account on rBuilder
  • Creating a new rBuilder project
  • Adding your applications to your project
  • Deciding what you want in your virtual machine
  • Building virtual images for VMware, Xen, Amazon, HyperV, and others
  • Lauching your virtual machine in Amazon EC2
  • Logging into your running machine and managing it
  • Updating your project and updating your running machines

LEVEL 2: Learn how to build and customize complex applications as virtual appliances

  • Review of Level 1 process steps
  • Packaging of database-enabled application
  • Configuring database schema with rBuilder
  • Designing pre- and post-installation scripts
  • Build and deploy updates to running instances on Amazon EC2
  • Configuring automatic appliance backups