Amazon EC2
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Monday, August 11, 2008
made my way through the deployment of webapp (tomcat 6) on Amazon EC2 the very famous webservice products from Amazon.checkout the amazon EC2 tutorial on youtube
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Amazon EC2 stuff
I've collected some useful information about cloud computing/amazon EC2 on the web
EC2 Deployment made easy: Capistrano and Capazon
Capistrano is a tool for deploying and managing remote servers. Its origin is (ruby based;-) on deploying rails applications.
Intersting EC2 AMI images (as a starting point)
I believe in not inventing the wheel;-) That's another incarnation of DRY ... So a good starting point for AMI images are the ones of Rightscale.
High-Availability Load Balancer (With Failover and Session Support) With HAProxy
HAProxy seems very promising as a production use software loadbalancer. The only drawback with this solution is that one still has to use some extra piece of middleware to terminate a ssl session (stunnel, apache).
Poolparty, a promising tool for cloud computing
Poolparty is a very interesting project. It promises easy cloud computing with Amazon EC2. The project undergoes a heavy rewrite of its core, so we ought to stay tuned :-)
Amazon Elastic Block Store
There is a new kid on the block: Amazon Elastic Block Store
Apache Webserver and Tomcat Virtual Hosts
Problem description: You want to server multiple web applications with one Tomcat instance. The brute force variant is to just "rewrite" or ProxyPass the request from e.g. www.myhost.com to the local tomcat with localhost:8080/myhost. But this...
Automated Environment: Puppet, iClassify, and Capistrano
There is a new hype: cloud computing. Your web site traffic grows? Add a new application server. Want to increase availability? Add a new web server. Among others Amazon offers a whole bunch of infrastructure to support these needs. But it is not...
Bootstraping ec2 with Puppet, iClassify, and Capistrano
Searching through github ( http://github.com/search?q=puppet) I came across a very similar approach on howto bootstrap EC2 images with capistrano puppet and iclassify. ec2-cap is build on top of the Rightscale Amazon EC2 gem...
Tomcat character enconding UTF-8
As with EVERY project sooner or later I encounter character encoding problems. This time everything seemed to be ok. UTF-8 settings everywhere I can think of. Did I miss something?
Thoughtworks Cruise 1.1 on Centos 5.2 EC2 building repo from github
In this blog post I will show how to launch a Centos 5.2 Amazon ami image, install Cruise 1.1 from Thoughtworks (also known as Cruise Control) and building a Java project, fetched from a github repository.
Use EBS on EC2 Centos 5.2 and snapshot with cron to S3
Create the volume and assign it to your instance Attach it to your Centos 5.2 instance yum install xfsprogs according to Thread: Debian Lenny and XFS causes kernel panic: Suggested Workaround mkfs.xfs -l version=1 /dev/sdh insert into /etc/fstab...
Tomcat: Too many open files
the symptom If tomcat just respondes with HTTP 500 and you find something like org.apache.tomcat.jni.Error: Too many open files at org.apache.tomcat.jni.Socket.accept(Native Method) at...