The scheduled maintenance of rBuilder Online is now complete. The main changes are to the rPath Management Console. What's that?

The rPath Management Console

What we used to call rBuilder Catalog for EC2™ has expanded far beyond the role of a simple catalog, so we renamed it the rPath Management Console. Don't worry, it still supports Amazon EC2! But in the next new major version of rBuilder Appliance, it will support several other targets, both clouds and virtual infrastructure services.

In this release, we have updated it with a number of bug fixes. Most noticeably, the page now resizes to the maximum width of your browser, which makes it more readable and usable. We've also changed the RUNNING grouping to now say INSTANCES, to clarify the nature of the resources you see under this group. (For virtual infrastructure targets in particular, it is certainly common to have instances that are currently stopped, but could be restarted; these stopped instances make sense to list under INSTANCES but make not sense under RUNNING.)

Under the hood, many operations are now faster.

CentOS Platform

Several bugs have been fixed in the CentOS platform that was recently added to rBuilder Online. One is still outstanding; to build CD/DVD ISO images for system installation (Appliance ISO or Installable ISO) you will need to edit advanced options when creating the image, and specify a custom anaconda template: centos.rpath.com@rpath:centos-5 This bug is expected to be resolved in the next rBuilder Online update.

Horizontal Layout Improvements

Do Your Part

Help us make rBuilder Online better. We welcome your feedback on the rBuilder Online forum. If you find any bugs, please file an issue.

Thank you for your interest in rBuilder Online.