Announcing Scalr 2.2!

“So, what’s new in Scalr 2.2?” you ask?

Lots of things!

For one, you can now scale on the Rackspace Cloud, and benefit from their awesome Fanatical Support™!

You can now scale on the Rackspace Cloud

And if you’re more into private clouds, you can now deploy Eucalyptus in each of your datacenters with a Region for each. Lets keep those machines working, baby!

Regions for Eucalyptus allows you to build applications that span multiple datacenters

Equally exciting is the all-new, Chef-based Role builder, that allows you to create roles from scratch, and assign ‘Behaviors’ to them (more on Behaviors in a later post).

Choose which Cloud infrastructure you want to deploy on...

Then choose your OS...

And choose the software you want. Voilà!

We’ve also built a new UI controller, that allows you to use different Scalr functions without a full page reload. This makes for a faster, more pleasant Scalr UI.

And then there’s small things, like HTTPS support for ELB, and the ability to delete roles. And cookies that actually keep you logged in!

Oh, and did I mention a new Dashboard? You can vote on new widgets to add here.

The Dashboard now uses a widget system