Deprecating Scalr’s ami-scripts agent

About a year ago, we made a significant architectural change to Scalr, and rewrote about 15k lines of code in the process. This rewrite was required to support multiple Clouds like EC2, Rackspace Cloud, but also to take infrastructure management to new levels of convenience and automation. Part of this rewrite involved creating a new guest agent to replace the kludge of bash scripts we hacked together when we started the project.

We’ve now hit a spot where we can’t make the old agent, scalr-ami-scripts, support the cool new features (like Monitoring and Alerting!) coming out, or even some of the ones we released in 2.1, or 2.2. So to get them, you’ll have to upgrade to the secure & faster scalarizr.

We wrote up some documentation to guide you through the process here: http://wiki.scalr.net/Tutorials/AMI_Scripts_to_Scalarizr_transition

This old agent will continue to be supported for the next 3 months, after which, if you haven’t upgraded, we’ll send pirate-ninja-cyborg-jesus after you:

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