Mist.io helps you manage and monitor your virtual machines across multiple clouds with a mobile friendly web app. This presentation took place in CoLab, Athens 27 September 2012, during the Greek AWS user group meetup.

1. down to earth cloud computing

3. Some clouds are different than others

4. One app to rule them all!

5. Open source software
+
Freemium web service

6. Where it sits

7. What it offers
Open Mobile Inexpensive Detailed Manage VMs
friendly monitoring
Rightscale
Enstratus
Boundary
Pingdom
Pagerduty
Mist.io

8. How it works
Step 1: configure Step 2: manage
Create reboot or destroy virtual machines. Send
Register & enter backend API keys.
batch ssh commands through the web.
Step 3: relax
Enable monitoring & alerting. You'll know right
away if anything goes wrong. You'll be able to
address most issues from your mobile or pad.

9. Architecture
EC2
Rackspace
browser REST server Native
API APIs
Linode
Openstack

10. Basic tools

13. Installation
sudo aptitude install python-dev build-essential
sudo aptitude install python-virtualenv
git clone git://github.com/unweb/mist.io.git
cd mist.io
virtualenv --no-site-packages .
./bin/python bootstrap.py
./bin/buildout -v

14. Configuration
BACKENDS = [
{'title': 'EC2',
'provider': Provider.EC2,
'id': 'AKIAI...DISQ',
'secret': 'mIAa25l....QfmXbcKyoPi/hC',
'poll_interval': 10000,
},
]

15. Configuration
KEYPAIRS = {
'default':( """ssh-rsa W...""",
"""-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY..
....
..END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----""")
}

16. Run
./bin/paster serve production.ini
or
./bin/paster serve development.ini --reload
point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:6543

17. Mist.io hands on
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18. Roadmap
Profiling &
cost analysis
Official launch
Monitoring NG
Public beta
VM migration
Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 ... future

19. Don't forget!
Check out the code
https://github.com/unweb/mist.io
Sign up for the public beta!
https://mist.io

20. down to earth cloud computing
Thank you!
Christos Psaltis https://mist.io
twitter: @cpsaltis twitter: @mist_io
email: cpsaltis@mist.io email: info@mist.io