Say it fast and Kelud becomes cloud.
Gunung Kelud is a stratovolcano on the border of Kediri and Blitar, East Java. It has a habit of going quiet for years and then making the whole island pay attention. Seemed like a good name for a cloud: calm on the surface, a lot going on underneath.
Summit elevation. Also a very reasonable TTL.
Eruptions recorded since 1000 AD.
Eruption recorded in the Nagarakretagama, the year Hayam Wuruk was born.
How far the 13 Feb 2014 ash travelled, reaching West Java.
Facts: Wikipedia, “Kelud”. Crater lake refills every rainy season.
Indonesia already has the best incident levels.
PVMBG rates every volcano on four alert levels. They work just as well for servers.
Normal
Fumaroles only. Graphs are flat, coffee is warm, nobody is on call in spirit.
Waspada
Latency tremors. Someone opens the dashboard “just to check”.
Siaga
Deploys frozen. Rollback plan printed. The crater lake is starting to steam.
Awas
Ash on every dashboard. Fail over, warn everyone downwind, write the postmortem later.
Nothing yet. The mountain is still building pressure.
gunung.cloud is a home for things worth running in the cloud. The first eruption is on its way.