rPath today announced its official launch of Tech Tuesday, a series of semi-monthly webinars that provide free technical training and advice on how to build a complete virtual appliance and deploy it to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) using rPath’s rBuilder Online. Each event is followed by an interactive Q&A session, allowing attendees to engage directly with rPath technical consultants.

“Tech Tuesday is designed for anyone with an interest in delivering applications to the cloud or other virtualized compute environments,” said Jake Sorofman, vice president of marketing for rPath. “These free tutorials provide the technical guidance organizations need as they look to virtualization and cloud to reduce the cost and complexity of application delivery.”

Tech Tuesday webinars are delivered on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 2:00 pm ET (11:00 am PT). Tech Tuesdays alternate between foundational topics (Level 1) and more advanced topics (Level 2):

LEVEL 1: How to build a complete virtual appliance and launch it on Amazon EC2

Level 1 attendees learn how to:

• Register for an account on rBuilder;
• Create a new rBuilder project;
• Add applications to a project;
• Determine what to include in a virtual machine;
• Build virtual images for VMware, Xen, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Hyper-V, and others;
• Launch a virtual machine in Amazon EC2;
• Log into a running machine and manage it; and,
• Update a project and update running machines.

LEVEL 2: How to build and customize complex applications as virtual appliances

Level 2 attendees review Level 1 process steps and then learn how to:

• Package a database-enabled application;
• Configure a database schema with rBuilder;
• Design pre- and post-installation scripts;
• Build and deploy updates to running instances on Amazon EC2; and,
• Configure automatic appliance backups.

Tech Tuesday is free of charge and open to the public. To register for a future Tech Tuesday, or to replay an archive of a past session, visit: http://www.rpath.com/corp/techtuesday.

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