Playing with Ubuntu Cloud on different machines without vlan

Question

I would like to try Ubuntu Cloud but unfortunately I don't have 3-5 bare-metal servers or a machine powerful enough to handle everything (via virtual machines). My idea was to rent 5 cheap servers (Hetzner, Online.net, Kimsufi etc) and give it a shot. But none of these providers offer a native vlan. Will MAAS be unusable in this case? If yes, I suppose that also Autopilot will be unusable? Thank you

Answer 1

I don't think that will work. On IRC you mentioned you wanted to evaluate OpenStack and the easiest way to do that is to use the single node installer:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cloud-installer/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openstack
sudo openstack-install

References:

• How do I install OpenStack?
• http://openstack.astokes.org/

Answer 2

You could use Linux Containers. They're incredibly lightweight. If I can run 50 of them on an old Pentium 4 I'm sure you can play around with them.

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/lxc.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/lxd