Grow Your Own Cloud Servers With Ubuntu

"Have you been wanting to fly to the cloud, to experiment with cloud computing? Now is your chance. With this article, we will step through the process of setting up a private cloud system using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), which is powered by the Eucalyptus platform.

"The system is made up of one cloud controller (also called a front-end server) and one or more node controllers. The cloud controller manages the cloud environment. You can install the default Ubuntu OS images or create your own to be virtualized. The node controllers are where you can run the virtual machine (VM) instances of the images."

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