A word about externally hosted services
So far, to work through the examples in this book, we have used locally hosted virtual servers that are launched using vagrant. During this chapter, we are going to use services that need to be able to communicate with your host machine, so rather than trying to do this using your local machine, its about time you took your host machine into the cloud.
As we are going to start and stop the remote hosts while we look at the services, it pays to use a public cloud, as we only get charged for what we use.
There are several public cloud services that you can use to evaluate the tools covered in this chapter, which one you choose to use is up to you, you could use:
Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com/
Microsoft Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/
VMware vCloud Air: http://vcloud.vmware.com/
Or use your own preferred provider, the only pre-requisite is that your server is publically accessible.
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