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Announcing TurnKey Hub v2.0
I can't believe it's been over 6 years since we announced v1.0. Even more shocking is the last hub tagged blog post was over 4 years ago, given that we haven't stopped developing, …
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TurnKey Core 12.0 RC optimized builds
Last month we announced the release candidate for TurnKey Core 12.0 - the common base for all appliances, based on the rock solid Debian Squeeze (6.0.4). It took a little longer …
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New Hub feature: Server snapshots
I usually get excited when adding new features to the TurnKey Hub. Recent excitement included server monitoring, reserved instances, domain management, and the Hub API. I'm very …
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Mapping AWS data centers for fastest connection
Yes, that's 'fastest', not closest. Background A while back I published a blog post entitled Finding the closest data center using GeoIP and indexing, which described how we …
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New Hub feature: Cloud server monitoring
Ladies and gentle geeks, I'm proud to announce we've just pushed out 100% free basic server monitoring to all TurnKey Hub accounts. This should make it easier to keep tabs on the …
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The Hub now supports reserved instances - pay up to 50% less
In response to user demand on the forum we've added Hub support for Amazon EC2 reserved instances. Reserved instances are an Amazon EC2 feature that allows you to reserve server …
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TurnKey Hub: Not just adding random features
I started writing a review for cloudtask as a comment on the announcement, but decided it would be better to address a topic that was raised by Jeremiah when we launched the Hub …
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Introducing CloudTask - a cloud batch execution tool
The cloud. Isn't that just a new name everyone on the latest hype bandwagon is slapping on the same old stuff? Yes. Or rather, at least the way some clueless marketing types are …
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TurnKey 11.2, free micro instances, EBS backed cloud servers
TurnKey 11.2: micro instances, EBS support, built-in TurnKey DNS, security updates We just updated the web site and the TurnKey Hub with the new TurnKey 11.2 maintenance release, …
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TurnKey Domain management & Dynamic DNS
A while ago I was chatting with Liraz and said "wouldn't it be great if when launching a cloud server the Hub would perform some magic and assign the server a friendly name? I'm …
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Announcing public API for TurnKey Hub
More power, control, flexibility and automation of cloud servers. Alan Kay once said: "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible". We live by those words, …
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New Hub feature: Auto-Restore TKLBAM backup to a new cloud server
Since we announced the release of TurnKey Hub v1.0 two weeks ago, we followed up with the two top issues users reported, and continued to receive awesome feedback - you guys rock, …
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Hub 1.0 follow-up: two top issues users reported + what we're doing about it.
Last week we announced the release of TurnKey Hub v1.0. The response was great, signups went through the roof and many of you went the extra mile and provided detailed feedback on …
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Announcing TurnKey Hub v1.0 - now officially out of private beta
When we first announced the TurnKey Hub private beta about 9 months ago, we had limited capacity (invitation only) and a modest feature set. Since then we tested, bugfixed, …
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TurnKey Linux 11 released (part one)
Ladies and gentlemen, part 1 of the TurnKey Linux 11 release is now officially out, including 45 new images based on Ubuntu 10.04.1. We pushed out the 11.0 release candidates 3 …
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Secure, flexible and scalable Amazon EC2 instance preseeding
I'd like to introduce Joe. He is a good looking, experienced sys-admin and like all good sysadmins, he has more stuff to do than time to do it. Joe wants to get up and running on …
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Finding the closest APT package archive using GeoIP and indexing
In preparation for TurnKey's upcoming release based on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS, we are knocking off todo list items. One of them is code-named auto-apt-archive. As you can guess …
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Finding the closest data center using GeoIP and indexing
We are about to release the TurnKey Linux Backup and Migration (TKLBAM) mechanism, which boasts to be the simplest way, ever, to backup a TurnKey appliance across all deployments …
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Launching TurnKey Hub into private beta: cloud deployment simplified
Towards the end of last year we decided it was time to start working on an idea we've been toying with for a while. Mapping out the feature set was fun, and a lot of the current …
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Automating EC2 instance setup with user-data scripts
I recently published ec2metadata which provides a simple CLI and Python interface to the metadata of an Amazon EC2 instance. In that post I mentioned that "one of the most useful …
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EBSmount: Automatically mount EBS devices on Amazon EC2
The 2 most annoying things about Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage) I have found, is that there is no support to auto-attach an EBS on instance launch, and the need to manually …
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Maintenance release: bugfixes, security updates, and better Amazon EC2 support
We've just pushed out a maintenance release for the 2009.10 appliance batch featuring: Bugfixes for all outstanding issues (we're out of beta baby!) Security updates Simplified …
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Amazon EC2 metadata - Python library and CLI
Each Amazon EC2 instance has associated metadata, as well as user data supplied when launching the instance. The meta and user data is instance-specific, and therefore only …