Cool Things You Can Do With 10 Nodes or Less

Kickstart your Cloud Project
Cloud and virtualized nodes are great for spinning up temporary environments for development and testing. Use your 10 nodes to provision, classify, and destroy these machines.Create an AWS cloud infrastructure: Spin up ten Amazon EC2 nodes at once with AWS CloudFormation, or spin up a few fresh nodes individually with Cloud provisioning.
Create and manage a VMware cluster: Create new VMware nodes one by one with cloud provisioning (VMware support is Puppet Enterprise-only). Once your machines are up, install VMware Tools to get the best functionality out of your nodes, and manage them from the Puppet Enterprise Console. If you're just looking to get a small deployment of compute nodes, we offer support for creating a fully functional OpenStack, Eucalyptus, and the new Google Compute Engine clusters:- How to create a fully-functional OpenStack environment
- Provision nodes against your OpenStack environment
- How to install a Eucalyptus private cloud
- Google Compute Engine
Application Deployment and Management
Our community contributors have used Puppet to deploy and manage every aspect of their infrastructure. With over 450 modules on Puppet Forge, you can quickly deploy and manage common applications, without writing a single line of code. We've picked a few favorites that prove 10 nodes are more than enough to add to or improve your infrastructure.Get a wiki up and running with a single node. Set up multiple instances of MediaWiki quickly.
Set up a Continuous Integration server: If you're writing code, you should be testing it.- Set up a Jenkins CI server
- Set up a Travis CI server (instructions within)