Chris Siebenmann
I've now created my first cloud (virtual) machine. It is of course a special snowflake, because I had no desire to try to simultaneously learn this cloud vendor's web UI, terminology, etc and also some cloud machine automation setup. At least it's an extremely simple special snowflake and I kept notes (and off-machine copies of everything important).
I suspect that it is terribly set up and there are much better ways to do what I want, but meh. It's simple.
Chris Siebenmann
@phillmv Yep, we're still on-premise (although I've used locally hosted VMs for testing for years). Partly this is because of (our) university funding model, where it's very hard to guarantee ongoing funding but it's comparatively easy to get one-time funding through grants. The cloud converting one-time capex into ongoing opex is terrible for us; we can't be sure of the opex funding, and if we stop paying the cloud goes away. Hardware is ours for as long as it keeps working.
phillmv
@cks wow you’ve been racking your own hardware this whole time?
Chris Siebenmann
My first cloud VM isn't even in production yet and its external monitoring of our stuff already found a real problem. On the one hand, clearly it's valuable. On the other hand, I'd rather that this sort of problem wasn't there in the first place.
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