I need help fixing a deprecated Elastic Beanstalk Environment running Python with Amazon Linux. Based on the information provided Amazon Linux is deprecated and I have to switch the platform to Amazon Linux 2. My Elastic Beanstalk status is severe and my web portal is not working.
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I tried to clone the platform and simply change to the recommended supported platform Amazon Linux2 however the option to switch is not provided as seen in the screenshot below:
How do I get this done the easy way without having to do it from scratch?
Please help. Thank you.
How do I get this done the easy way without having to do it from scratch?
You can't. It must be done manually as EB platforms based on AL2 are much different then those based on AL1. AWS provides a guide how to do it:
Migrating your Elastic Beanstalk Linux application to Amazon Linux 2
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I would like to setup production environment on EC2 Ubuntu Image. What is the best practice for setting up production environment on a cloud server?
What are the aws services to look at apart from ec2 for the best approach?
p.s I managed to get running installation for development environment with docker on EC2 but cant find production related resources. I would like to learn more about it but could not find a relevant guide for it.
Thank you in advance.
There's a general guide for cluster setups with Shopware. I assume that is your goal. Also if you managed to install the development template you should not run into any problems installing the production template in a similar manner.
We have a production ElasticBeanStalk on N.Virginia region. This environment uses a deprecated platform branch. Amazon recommended that we upgrade to a supported platform branch.
Platform branch - Node.js running on 64bit Amazon Linux
Current Platform version - 4.10.2
Current node js version - 10.16.3
Recommended Platform version - 4.17.9
I just tried to upgrade to a supported platform branch for Elastic Beanstalk. When I try to change the version in Platform, Amazon recommend us to clone the current environment, which creates a newer version of the platform, and then swap the CNAME of the environments.
After I cloned my environment, its Health status like "No Data".
When I try to change the Platform version in cloned environment, it doesn't allow me to update due to Health status is Invalid state.
Can any one please advice on this issue? Thanks in Advance.
Nodejs 4.17.9 is only available for 64bit Amazon Linux 2 v5.4.4 running Node.js 14 EB platform version. This EB is based on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2). Your current version uses AL1. They are incompatible with each other.
This means you have to manually migrate your current EB application to new environment based on AL2. The general steps for this are described in AWS docs:
Migrating your Elastic Beanstalk Linux application to Amazon Linux 2
I have an amazon ec2 instance with RHEL 7.3 on it. I would like to convert this into an iso so that I can migrate it wherever I want. What are the best tools to create an iso of a virtual machine. Or how do I clone/backup this VM so that I can restore it anywhere I want?
You can work with VM and AWS programatically via AWS CLI commands.
You want to get familiar with import-task and export-task commands.
The best place to start is by reading an official AWS guides for:
Exporting an Instance as a VM Using VM Import/Export
Importing a VM as an Image Using VM Import/Export
The key information you need to pick up from the guide is this quote:
"You can't export an instance from Amazon EC2 unless you previously
imported it into Amazon EC2 from another virtualization environment."
Yes, there are solutions, one of them linked by #Nicholas Smith. That being said, if you go the unofficial route you might end up in a dark alley where help might not be available. I highly recommend and warn here to not proceed with trying to clone EC2 into VM at this point. You will spend a lot of time with a huge risk factor for future.
For you to be able to achieve what you want, you need to create a RHEL VM using any VM software, you need to load this VM into AWS and then you will be able to work with VM in AWS making any necessary changes and export again for local or transportation needs.
As you are running a widely-used Linux distribution - RHEL, you can attempt to recreate your EC2 environment manually by launching a VM that runs the same kernel version along with the same package versions. From there, you can tarball what files you need from your production instance and copy them over to your on-premise site by using SCP/SFTP.
Just get your RHEL environment into VM locally and import to AWS and you set.
Clonezilla provides functionality to create images. Generated images can be converted to ISO files.
It doesn't seem to be something that Amazon promote as a service however the aws cli tools have an ec2-unbundle command for extracting from an AMI. There's a guide here on how to download and run an EC2 AMI locally by using it.
Caveat is it appears the ec2-unbundle command currently only works on Linux and not OS X or Windows.
I am writing an application which would enable my company's future clients to be able to launch Amazon aws instances with Windows OS. Hence, I would want to create windows AMIs first. The article below gives a step by step approach for creating EBS-backed windows AMIs using Amazon AWS console.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/Creating_EBSbacked_WinAMI.html
But when I tried looking up the methods provided by CreateImageRequest API provided by Amazon SDK, I couldn't quite figure out how to replicate the AWS management console process for creating a windows image in Java. I exhausted my google searches and I came up empty. Has anyone tried this? Is this even possible at all to create Windows images through Amazon SDK?
I found that CreateInstanceRequest API has an option to specify the OS types but the options are limited to Amazon Linux or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The documentation for CreateInstanceRequest is below:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaSDK/latest/javadoc/com/amazonaws/services/opsworks/model/CreateInstanceRequest.html
I would appreciate any useful link or code snippet. Thanks.
I don't completely understand what you are trying to achieve.
Do you want to start an instance in EC2 or with OpsWorks because your second link points to the OpsWorks documentation.
OpsWorks dosen't support Windows right now.
I'm not sure if this is the write place to ask, but this is the only site I know where I get my questions answered... anyways
I wanted to install drupal but where should I host it? Can amazon web service host this such application? Do I need to go somewhere else and host it? I do have an account with inmotionhosting, but I was thinking if Amazon does the job, why not just use it? Any thoughts and opinions?
You can install Drupal on AWS EC2 if you have sys admin experience. Otherwise you will need to use a managed platform, like Cloudways, for that. Configuring web server like Apache and Nginx, cache like Varnish and Memcached and other features on AWS is little difficult. Many managed servers have those features available in their platform so you don't have to configure anything or go through long process of installing application on AWS.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will host Drupal no problem.
The service you're looking for is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It's pretty much equivalent to a private server with which you can do almost whatever you want (Web hosting included). The downside is that you have to do all the setup yourself.
If you don't know how to install Apache or configure your own Linux machine, you'd probably be better off with managed hosting where they'll set everything up for you.
You can also just use AWS Cloudformation to set up your drupal environment. It's a service that is part of AWS that will set up your stack for you. you may still need to know how to handle your config files but at least you do not have to go into installing the DB , Apache etc all manually.
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/
Bitnami provides a free (Apache-licensed) pre-built Drupal image for AWS that you launch easily. It is great for quickly testing something but if you choose the right instance for your expected load, also for production (disclaimer: I am a cofounder of Bitnami, though as I mentioned the image is open source)
Drupal can be deployed and hosted automatically on Jelastic PaaS. You won't need to configure it from scratch. And if you wish to make some custom settings while installation, you can also easily install it manually. Both variants are described in the guide.
As a result, you'll get automatic scaling, pay-per-use pricing, management via intuitive UI, a wide choice of local service providers from different countries and other options to run your Drupal effectively.