Trixbox on Ec2

May 26

NickMarketing , , Comments Off

I’ve been playing around with various voip technologies, including Trixbox Trixbox CE is the sucessor to Asterisk @ Home run by Fonality, who’s CEO, Chris Lyman is a long-time friend since the Virtualis days in the 90′s. I’ve also been working a LOT with Amazon’s web services, especially EC2, S3, SQS and SimpleDB.

One cool thing I found is that it is trivial to get Trixbox running on EC2. Here’s what you do:
1) download the latest vmware version of Trixbox CE from: http://www.trixbox.org/downloads
2) boot up in the player
3) install the EC2 tools
4) bundle the volume

After a couple of hours you should have a fully functioning AMI you can then boot-up on EC2 with Trixbox CE ready to rock.

Don’t forget to use EC2 to open up the appropriate ports.

I’m considering making a paid AMI for those people who want to play with it without taking the time to create their own – and to play around with Amazon FPS to boot.