> Your deployment platform is going to be very similar to your development platform. I'm glad you mentioned this because Sputnik is very awesome for this. They

> Your deployment platform is going to be very similar to your development platform. I'm glad you mentioned this because Sputnik is very awesome for this. They included our new service orchestration tool [Juju](https://juju.ubuntu.com/ https://juju.ubuntu.com/) (along with a bunch of other useful stuff) on it to do just exactly what you're talking about. This lets you deploy your application locally on the laptop using LXC containers, assuming you're set up with an environment called "local" and your AWS account called "amazon", hack on your local app, let's say it's node.js, when you're ready to test: juju deploy -elocal node-app whatever-yourapp juju deploy -elocal mongodb juju add-relation -elocal mongodb myapp Then just `juju status` gives you a listing of your environment. What happens on Sputnik is you've deployed three [LXC containers](http://lxc.sourceforge.net/ http://lxc.sourceforge.net/), one for orchestration, one for your node app, and one for mongodb with Ubuntu server just like they would deploy on EC2. Then you iterate a few times, commit, deploy, test. After you've done this for a while, now you're ready to deploy in EC2: juju deploy -eamazon node-app whatever-yourapp juju deploy -eamazon mongodb juju add-relation -eamazon mongodb myapp juju expose -eamazon whatever-yourapp Then `juju status`, snag the public URL for your AWS instance, paste it into your browser, and you're deployed. The nice thing there is you're doing all your app development locally on sputnik in containers that are pure Ubuntu Server, just like you'd get on AWS or HP Cloud, except now you're not running up a bill testing every little thing, you can replicate those kinds of deployments locally, which is nice when you're on a plane. Sorry to sound like a commercial but Dell lent me a Sputnik to show this off at OSCON and it's really really nice to be able to just fire up deployments locally on a fast SSD and then push willy-nilly to the cloud, all right out of the box.