I am new in cloud platforms
I wanted to test openshift on AWS / GKE (I have working accounts on both the cloud)
All tutorials pointing in pre-requisite that I need a domain name. sins domain names are not free and I just want to try this, how I can achive this without purchasing a domain name? Maybe with hosted zones, or Hostfile entry or Elastic load balancer. I am ok with temprory domain name
One idea in mind is to set up one machine with public IP and install free DNS app on it but I am not aware, how I can resolve domain names
If you want to take it for a quick spin on those cloud environments, without the hassle of setup, consider a test drive instances.
https://www.openshift.com/container-platform/trial.html
They are time limited, but okay for a quick play.
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I'm trying to set up a Staging VM for a site that's in production that I have just inherited. The site is running Wordpress/Woocommerce and has not been updated in a while. The VM it's hosted on is running an old version of PHP. Obviously, this all needs to be fixed up but I'm unfamiliar with GCP Compute Engine. Also any attempt to run backup/clone plugins crashes the site and requires a restore from the daily snapshot which is very annoying.
Is it possible to clone the VM/disk to a new instance, point that at a temporary domain, and test/update the site? I have been trying to do this for a while now without much luck any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Creating a clone of an existing VM is possible and quite easy.
Create a snapshot of the VM. If possible stop the VM before doing this to ensure 100% accuracy - this way you will have exact snapshot of the drive without any errors. You can do it while the VM is running too if stopping it is out of the question.
Create a VM from the shapshot - select as a boot disk a snapshot that you've just created. Remember to assign a static public IP to this VM (unless you want it changed after VM restart and since you're going to do some configuration this would likely happen). You can change the VM's specs at this time too - nothing stops you from adding/removing CPU's, RAM etc. It may well be that your VM is underutilised and you can use something smaller to save costs. Or the opposite.
Start the machine. Now you can modify your WP configuration to point to a new domain. Depending on the SSL certificate - you can either use external one or the one provided by GCP (most convinient solution).
If you already own a domain you want to use for staging you can host it in Cloud DNS or at some other provider - just point it to the external IP you just reserved.
If you will be hosting your domain in the Cloud DNS then you will find necessary infomration in the documentation about managed zones (domains).
You can also consider creating a new VM and setting it as a template for creating a group of VM's (managed autoscaled group) and creating an external HTTPS load balancer in front of it. But this adds a little to the complexity so it's just my idea if you needed to handle a lot more traffic.
I'm trying to deploy hyperledger fabric network on two physical machines.
I've deployed it on single machine using this Guide.
But it is not clear to me what should i change in configuration files to deploy it on different nodes.
What does host field in configtx.yaml mean? (for example - Host: peer0.org1.example.com) Is it name only of virtual host, or i should replace it with real ip?
Please consider using follow script to roll over the Fabric network on bare metal machines. In fact you can also use it to learn how to setup your network and what parameters and configuration you need to take care about.
UPDATE
The Host value of the configtx.yaml file is the endpoint of anchor peers for different organization. Where the key role of the anchor peers is to get two organization which participating on one channel get connected together, basically anchor peers used as a advertisement billboard allowing organization to share theirs membership in scope of particular channel.
While you going to deploy your network on bare metals you have to use real host names or IP addresses and make sure they are accessible. Basically this is not that different compared to the docker-compose configuration available in fabric-samples.
The name in the configtx.yaml, are the domains that will have your nodes (peer, orderer, CA), those will be hosted in your docker containers with those domains, they will comunicate using those.
You can replace them for your IP Addresses if it's easier to understand, but I recommend to leave them like that.
Also if you are preparing a multihost solution you will need to add an extra-host section to your docker-compose files.
extra_hosts:
- "peer1.org1.example.com:<Second machine IP address>"
Don't know if you could accomplish to start your hyperledger fabric but, I figured out how to setup a multihost Hyperledger Fabric not using Docker Swarm, and using the basic-network example included in the Hyperledger Fabric examples.
You can review it here, hope it helps you.
https://medium.com/1950labs/setup-hyperledger-fabric-in-multiple-physical-machines-d8f3710ed9b4
I'm a newbie to web development. My team at school is using J2EE and MySQL to develop a web app that will be deployed on AWS. We use GitHub for version control.
I am just wondering if I use MySQL from my terminal to add tables into the local "test" database, how can my teammates have access to them? Should I deploy the database somewhere or maybe create the tables in code so that my teammates can automatically have the tables in their local database when they run the code? But how can the data already stored in the database be shared then?
Sorry to have this naive question, I tried to do some research online but it seems that the results are more advanced and about PHP not J2EE... It will also be great if you can recommend some good resource for me to read through since I believe this is a very fundamental concept that I should know.
You can maintain the database's schema in your code so it can be committed to source control and accessed by the others. This is a good practice regardless of how you use a test database for the development.
Your team members will not be able to easily access your local database. For a distributed development environment it would be best to host your test database on a remote server, such as on an EC2 instance in a public subnet or in RDS. Then you can pass along the database's connection information (host, port) and credentials to the other team members.
Pay attention to the security group when creating the database either in EC2 or RDS. You can open it up to the world (0.0.0.0) or narrow it to just your team members' IP addresses to tighten security. Otherwise the team members will not be able to connect to the database.
It's hard for your team members to access your local database from another computer. It's a lot better to host your database on a remote server, such as a EC2 on AWS or Computer Engine on GCP. Then you MySQL database can be accessed by anyone with an authorized connection and whitelisted IP address.
Another solution is using a cloud-based data warehouse like a Snowflake or Acho Studio. Once you have the MySQL database connected to the DW, your teammates should be able to access the tables you've authorized them to see.
This way you can also share your SQL queries with your teammates so they can run them against the MySQL server themselves.
You can create a test environment using VM or containers and share it with your team members. You should pay attention to how to keep track of the changes in these test environments as well. The following answer describes how a db with schema can be shared using a docker image. You can version control these images so you can track the changes.
I have just created cloud storage on google for mysql database.
I have added local IP address and server's IP address in authorization (under access control).
It's getting connected in mysql work bench in my local machine. But, it's not connecting with the website which is running on windows azure platform.
Which IP address am I supposed to use in access control?
Website is in basic package of azure.
This is a relatively non-trivial thing to achieve as the GCP services need to know about the public source IP of the Azure service. Azure's IP surface is pretty wide so you'd be unlikely to successfully connect the two. You'll be unlikely to be able use just a single source IP address.
You may be better off looking at a VPN connection out of an Azure VNet to your GCP environment.
To be honest, trying to build any form of performant web experience that hosts the web and data tiers in different public clouds is going to be extremely challenging.
Actually I resolved this issue by opening ticket in azure support.
They have outbound IP addresses range available online. We need to provide those IP addresses to third party access control.
I am sharing you that link here.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/fd53afb7-14b8-41ca-bfcb-305bdeea413e/maintenance-notice-upcoming-changes-to-increase-capacity-for-outbound-network-calls?forum=windowsazurewebsitespreview
Choose those IP addresses which are associated with your website.
Is it possible to use AWS services to host an application build in following technologies
jsf2/primefaces3
tomcat 6
mysql 5
Apart from these I need email services, blog etc a conventional java based package is this possible in AWS.
Presently I am using one of the hosting provider and my domain is also registered with them so how can I point the domain to point to the AWS hosted website. Is this possible
I can answer most of your questions. Yes it's possible to host an app with those technologies on AWS. You can host any application on an AWS server, as it's just like any other server but you must configure everything yourself, unless you are using a customized AMI.
I wouldn't recommend using AWS to send out email however, as in my experience, a lot of spammers have abused the AWS system, so if you are sending out email newsletters/etc... from an AWS server, it may be treated more strictly by other email server spam filters. It's best to use a third party solution for sending out bulk email.
As for your last question: "how can I point the domain to point to the AWS hosted website", that is way too complicated to answer here. I would suggest hiring someone experienced with DNS to manage this transition. I would recommend that you move your DNS hosting to Amazon's S3 routing service. Then you can easily manage your DNS and other AWS services from one console.
Good luck