On Wednesday, all of the groups presented on what they had accomplished during the semester. I did not realize how much work we actually got done as an entire class until I saw the presentations. There were 7 presentations in all:
- Eutester Issues
- Cloud Overview
- Eutester Documentation
- Infrastructure
- Leveraging Python for Eutester
- Using Euca200ls (my group)
- Installing Euca2ools and Eutester
The first group gave an overview of the open and closed issues on Github. The second group gave a very detailed overview of the ideas behind cloud computing and defined many general and Eucalyptus-specific terms. The third group described the process of attempting to document the Eutester code. Dave and Mike, the infrastructure group, had an entertaining discussion about how much frustration went into setting up a working Eucalyptus cloud. The fifth group went into depth about using Python with Eutester. My group described the main functions of Euca2ools and the process of creating a user-friendly guide on our wiki. We actually succeeded in demonstrating a working SSH connection to an instance created from an image that I uploaded to our Eucalyptus cloud, which I consider to be a big accomplishment! The final group critiqued the experience of attempting to get several modules up and running, specifically Euca2ools and Eutester, just by following the wiki guides that we had all created.
It was very interesting to see the other groups present, especially the groups involved with Eutester. Spending most of my time with Euca2ools, I did not look into Eutester very much at all. Seeing all of my classmates describe their experiences with it was great to see.