Amazon EC2
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Aug 11, 2008
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Amazon EC2 stuff
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Aug 14, 2008
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Amazon Elastic Block Store
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Aug 22, 2008
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There is a new kid on the block: Amazon Elastic Block Store
Continue Reading…High-Availability Load Balancer (With Failover and Session Support) With HAProxy
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Aug 20, 2008
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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).
Continue Reading…Intersting EC2 AMI images (as a starting point)
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Aug 19, 2008
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Poolparty, a promising tool for cloud computing
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Aug 21, 2008
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EC2 Deployment made easy: Capistrano and Capazon
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Aug 19, 2008
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Automated Environment: Puppet, iClassify, and Capistrano
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Aug 26, 2008
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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 enough to fire up a server. The web server should include apache, the app server should include tomcat. The deployment should be aware of the new app server. This is where Puppet, iClassify, and Capistrano come into play. Puppet does the configuration management, installs your desired web and app server.
Continue Reading…Bootstraping ec2 with Puppet, iClassify, and Capistrano
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Sep 06, 2008
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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 (http://rightaws.rubyforge.org/)
http://github.com/adamhjk/ec2-cap/tree/master
The main idea behind this is to
Continue Reading…Thoughtworks Cruise 1.1 on Centos 5.2 EC2 building repo from github
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Nov 30, 2008
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Use EBS on EC2 Centos 5.2 and snapshot with cron to S3
Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Mar 06, 2009
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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
/dev/sdh /vol/shared xfs noatime 0 0
mount the volume
mount /vol/shared