Now that HP has opened up their OpenStack beta, it’s easy to try out PlatformLayer.

Suggestion: Before you start setting up PlatformLayer, sign up first. I don’t know how long the approval delay can be.

I’ll walk through downloading & getting it running; in the next post I’ll describe using PlatformLayer to run memcached.

I’ve moved the installation instructions to installation on the wiki.

Next time: running memcache using PlatformLayer