Recently, I had the pleasure of exchanging e-mail with István Soós who had contacted our OpenSolaris on EC2 team asking how he could use OpenSolaris along with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Block Stores (EBS) to create a subversion-based source code control system. Sounds simple, right? Well, István threw us a curve ball. He wanted the revision control system to run on OpenSolaris and be stored on an encrypted, mirrored ZFS file system backed by EBS. Now, you have to admit, that is pretty cool!

This is the point in the story where István met. After going over the requirements, it appeared as though the encrypted scratch space work that had been done for the Immutable Service Container project was a near fit except that persistence was needed. So, I provided István with links to this work which of course linked to Darren’s original article on ZFS encryption using LOFI. Just a day later, István replied that his environment was up and running! Talk about speed and agility in the Cloud Computing world!

I would definitely encourage you to check out all of the details on István’s blog. I especially want to thank István for sharing this great article that I hope will encourage others to try new things and keep pushing the OpenSolaris envelope forward!

Take care!

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Source/Kaynak : http://blogs.sun.com/gbrunett/entry/encrypted_zfs_using_amazon_ebs