Cloud install
Does anyone have any experience in running OpenVPMS in the cloud?
The background is that I helped a new OpenVPMS user to install and fire up the system on his laptop. He has a mobile business and wants to add a partner.
When he does the 'run everything on my laptop' solution will not be the optimum. He asked about a cloud install and I confessed ignorance.
Because of expertise levels (both mine and his), my preference is for a windows based cloud system - and a bit of googling led to the Amazon EC2 facility.
Does anyone have any experience and/or advice?
Regards, Tim G
Re: Cloud install
Hi Tim,
I have implemented quite a few cloud installs on AWS. All Ubuntu boxes though. Happy to discuss implementation details if you want to talk to me offline.
Cheers Tony
Re: Cloud install
I have done this too. If you need any thoughts help. One major area of difficulty was ease of printing.
I gave up using google cloudprint with Amazon EC2 because we could not get some of our label printer drivers to format correctly.
The solutions I am pursuing are:
1. PDF everything and then print
2. Use a VPN (OpenVPN)
3. Use Amazon SQS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Simple_Queue_Service
Thoughts appreciated.
Re: Cloud install
Hi Cahir,
We always utilise a VPN to link the clinci network to the cloud server(s). We utilise openswan and ipsec network to network tunnles and then setup diretc printer connections on the cloud server (usually cups on ubuntu).
Hope this helps.
Cheers Tony