I recently installed minishift, the openshift origin environment built on docker on my laptop. The instance works fine at the first time when installed. However, when I poweroff my machine and then try to start the system again, it fails.
The issue is the ip address assigned while provisioning the VM first time changes when the system is restarted.
The issue doesn't persist when I delete the VM and then start it again. What's the solution for this? I have tried several possible solutions provided on the internet.
I have also tried --host-only-cidr "192.168.99.1/24" to minishift while starting it for the first time. But that didn't help either.
I have found the solution. Though it requires using a third party script, currently there's no provision to assign static ip to Virtualbox VMs. I have used the library https://github.com/ahilbig/docker-machine-ipconfig and performed the steps followed, which provide a static ip address for minishift. The command is
minishift-ipconfig static <your_ip_address>
Please note the ip address should be the same which was assigned while creating the VM.
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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 am getting the connection time out when running the command in bootstrap.
Any configuration suggestions on networking part if I am missing
It’s says kubernetes api calling time out
This is obviously very hard to debug without having access to your environment. Some tips to debug the OKD installation:
Before starting the installation, make sure your environment meets all the prerequisites. Often, the problem lies with a faulty DNS / DHCP / networking setup. Potentially deploy a separate VM into the network to check if everything works as expected.
The bootstrap node and the Master Nodes are deployed with the SSH key you specify, so in vCenter, get the IP of the machines that are already deployed and use SSH to connect to them. Once on the machine, use sudo crictl ps and sudo crictl logs <container-id> to review the logs for the running containers, focussing on the components:
kube-apiserver
etcd
machine-controller
In your case, the API is not coming up, so reviewing the logs of the above components will likely show the root cause.
My google cloud instance (10.128.0.3) lost network connectivity somewhere just after 0400 this AM. I am running Centos 6.10) The network interfaces are up and have IP addresses. Unable to ping default gateway (10.128.0.1). Firewall rules (google and local) have not been changed/modified. This instance has been online for several years with no recent changes made. Any suggestions would be helpful and appreciated.
This is a known issue when updating to kernel 2.6.32-754 that is affecting both Red Hat, and CentOS images, and seems related to this DHCP update. The Compute Engine team are already aware of this issue.
Meanwhile, and in addition to the great suggestions above, you may also use a startup script ( add the default gateway IP address) to fix this issue, and then restart your instance. Todo so without access to the instance simply add a metadata for the instance with the name startup-script and the content of the below script (make sure to update the gateway to your, it can be found in the VPC Page)
#!/bin/bash
route add default gw [default_gateway_ip] eth0
For further information/updates about this issue, you may check this issue tracker link. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/111154121
I have a google VM Instance Group setup so I can use autoscale (currently turned off until I'm ready to load test) when traffic/requests increase. I'm running a standard LAMP stack to run CraftCMS.
For some reason, the static IP address keeps changing making it unavailable to update via SSH through the console. When the IP changes, my LAMP stack is gone and I have to reinstall everything.
I tried claiming a static ip address and applying it to the VM Instance but that seems to do nothing.
How do I setup a Managed Group instance so this stops happening. If the ip address keeps changing, how can I setup the A Name DNS settings so that when you go to the actual URL it points to the correct server?
It all seems to work fine when I don't setup a Managed Group Instance but a regular VM Instance. But I want autoscaling to be on so I don't have to manually manage it.
Any help with this would make my day...
I'm new to GCE and want to migrate my web site there. I created a VM instance group hoping. I installed all the packages and set it up a couple days ago. But today I noticed my VM instance group has a different name (postfix, to be exact), and the disk is flushed empty. Is it possible to restore its status, or at least make sure it won't get wiped out again? I'm so surprised that GCE wiped out everything and I wonder if I'm missing something during setup.
A few details in case they are related:
I'm using a trusty image for the VM.
The cloud storage is chosen to be a regular persistent disk.
It was working with emphemeral IP, and yesterday I started to use Cloud DNS to host my domain. I should have used a static IP, but that mistake shouldn't cause the VM instance group to be flushed...
I'm using cloud sql as the database service.
Maybe I should just use VM instance, given I don't have much traffic now?
Any help will be greatly appreciated~