Introducing Bitnami Cloud Tools for Google Compute Engine

As you may know, we offer free installers for the Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services SDKs, which make it incredibly easy to get a dev environment for either cloud set up on your local machine. Today, we are introducing Bitnami Cloud Tools for the Google Cloud (Google Compute Engine).

The Bitnami Cloud Tools installer packages the Google Cloud command line tools together with preconfigured Python language runtime. It’s a self-contained, easy to use distribution with one goal in mind: to make it simple to get started using Google Cloud services from the command line.

We support Windows, Linux, Linux 64-bit and OS X operating systems. Visit the Bitnami Cloud Tools for Google Compute Engine page to get started, read the documentation, and if you get stuck or need help you can try our forums. Enjoy!

AWS SDK for Node.js now in BitNami Cloud Tools for AWS

Amazon recently released a new AWS SDK for Node.js which provides JavaScript objects for AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 and DynamoDB. We are glad to announce that this SDK has already been included in the BitNami Cloud Tools for AWS installers available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

You can now find this new SDK and the Node.js runtime itself  together with other useful development kits like the AWS SDK for Java and the AWS SDK for Ruby in BitNami Cloud tools. These tools allow you to manage AWS services from the command line or programmatically using your preferred development language.

In this version we also include major updates of other core components, which include features such as:

- AWS Elastic Beanstalk 2.4.0 adds EC2 Role support for log publication and support for displaying Events, Tail Logs and EB Push.

- Amazon RDS Command Line Toolkit 1.14.001 adds support for read replica status.

-  AWS SDK for Ruby 1.11.0 adds support for web identity federation to AWS Security Token Service. Since 1.8.0 (previous version included in BitNami cloud tools) it also adds  support for parallel scan in Amazon DynamoDB, Elastic Load Balancing support in AWS OpsWorks and support for the AWS Support API.

- AWS SDK for Java 1.4.5 adds support for web identity federation in AWS Security Token Service (STS). Since 1.3.27 (previous version included in BitNami cloud tools) a lot of new features have also been included. Now it also supports Parallel Scan in Amazon DynamoDB, Elastic Load Balancing in AWS OpsWorks, the AWS Support API, automatic endpoint management in SQS,  Amazon EC2 default virtual private clouds, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elastic Transcode, Amazon RDS DB Instance renaming and IAM role in Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

BitNami Cloud Tools now with AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

We are happy to announce a new version of the BitNami Cloud Tools package. This version ships the Developer Preview of AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), a new Python unified tool to manage your AWS services.

With this tool, you will be able to control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts. This preview release currently supports 10 AWS services.

In addition to that, BitNami Cloud Tools includes the most popular AWS developer tools for the command line:

- EC2 API tools
- EC2 AMI tools
- CloudFormation tools
- SES tools (Simple Email Service)
- SNS tools (Simple Notification Service)
- CloudWatch command line tool
- and more.

You can check the full component list and versions at http://bitnami.org/tools/cloud

BitNami Cloud Tools with Amazon EC2 High I/O instance support

One of our goals at BitNami is to make it easier to develop and deploy applications in the cloud. As part of this effort, we are happy to announce a new release of the BitNami Cloud Tools stack. The BitNami Cloud Tools installer packages the Amazon Web Services command line tools together with pre-configured Java, Ruby and Perl language runtimes. It is a self-contained, easy to use distribution that simplifies the process of getting started using AWS services from the command line. In this latest release, we have updated the AWS SDK for Java, which now includes two great new features: Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS support and Amazon EC2 High I/O Instances support.

Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS is a new Elastic Block Store volume type for running high performance databases in the cloud. Provisioned IOPS are designed to deliver predictable, high performance for I/O intensive workloads, such as database applications, that rely on consistent and fast response times. With Provisioned IOPS, you can flexibly specify both volume size and volume performance, and Amazon EBS will consistently deliver the desired performance over the lifetime of the volume.

The AWS SDK for Java now provides a convenient enum value to use when launching the new Amazon EC2 High I/O instance type. High I/O instances provide tens of thousands of low-latency, random I/O operations per second (IOPS) to an application. They are well suited for NoSQL databases, clustered databases, and OLTP (online transaction processing) systems.

For more information, see the release notes.

For a complete list of components and versions included in the BitNami Cloud Tools Stack, visit the BitNami Cloud Tools Stack page.