We've been toying with switching to cloud based desktops, specifically AWS Workspace. Is there support for Ubuntu desktops though? To this point I've only been able to generate Windows environments.
UPDATE: Amazon Workspaces now supports Amazon Linux 2, an offshoot of CentOS.
Update: Workspaces now have a linux option, in case anyone finds this.
AWS Workspaces only supports Windows at the moment.
From the product description:
Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure cloud desktop service. You can use Amazon WorkSpaces to provision either Windows or Linux desktops
Amazon Workspaces now allows the use of Windows 7 and Windows 10, as well as Amazon Linux 2. There are options that are eligible for the Free Tier.
Descriptions of what software you can install are available here.
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I have my existing servers on Amazon Linux, now we are planning to upgrade it to amazon linux2. How do we do that?
Do we have a set of steps to upgrade or do we need to launch a new Ec2 instance using Amazon Linux2 Image and re-install our apps on top of it?
From Amazon Linux 2 FAQs:
Can I perform an in-place upgrade from an existing version of Amazon Linux AMI to Amazon Linux 2?
No, an in-place upgrade from the existing Amazon Linux image to Amazon Linux 2 is not supported. We recommend that you test your application on a fresh installation of Amazon Linux 2 first before migrating.
Currently my workload is running on "Tomcat 8.5 with Java 8 running on 64bit Amazon Linux/3.3.9" and want to upgrade to Amazon Linux 2 and run my workload on "Tomcat 8.5 with Corretto 8 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2/4.2.5". For testing was trying to clone the existing environment but don't see an option to upgrade the platform. The platform option is greyed out. Is this by design or am i doing something wrong ?
Is this by design or am i doing something wrong ?
Its by design and you have to do it manually. The reason is that EB platforms based on Amazon Linux (AL1) are incomtabile with those based on AL2. This means that there is no automated procedure for the upgrade. You have to follow the AWS docs to do manual upgrade:
Migrating your Elastic Beanstalk Linux application to Amazon Linux 2
I am trying to install GUI on my Amazon Linux 2 AMI. I tried several solutions like GNNOME and Mate Desktop, but when I try to install desktop by group list I get a warning:
group Desktop does not exist or GNOME does not exist.
How can I resolve this issue?
This is now supported.
See this article in the AWS knowledge base:
How do I install a GUI on my Amazon EC2 instance running Amazon Linux 2?
Last updated: 2021-04-20
I want to install a graphical user interface (GUI) in my Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance running Amazon Linux 2. How do I do this?
Short description
To install a GUI on your EC2 Linux instance, do the following:
Install the MATE desktop environment. MATE is a lightweight GUI based on GNOME 2 available as an extra for Amazon Linux 2. The Amazon Linux 2 offering of Amazon WorkSpaces uses MATE. For more information about MATE, see the MATE desktop environment website.
Install a virtual network computing (VNC) service, such as TigerVNC. For more information about TigerVNC, see the tigervnc.org website.
Connect to the GUI using the VNC.
(Optional) Install a web browser, such as Firefox or Chromium. For more information on Firefox, see the mozilla.org website. For more information on Chromium, see the chromium.org website.
Note: These instructions apply only to Amazon Linux 2. To confirm the version that you're running, run the following command:
cat /etc/os-release
Can IBM Integration Bus((and /or Websphere message Broker) be implemeted on AWS ? Can my on-premise ESB be migrated to AWS Cloud ?
Thanks in Advance
AWS EC2 allows importing VMs into an AMI then you can start an EC2 instance using that image. If you are new to AWS you can check the link below
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/
However, you should be careful about IIB license and how many machines you can install it on before regesting the AMI in a launch configuration and create an autoscaling group and set a scaling policy that can start instances more that what you purchased.
That's very much possible. There are several possible approaches.
1. IIB on EC2
Installing and configuring IIB on an EC2 instance is very much similar to doing the same in on-premise servers. Only difference is that the physical server is in AWS Cloud. While this approach gives you maximum flexibility to design your architecture any way, it does not take advantage of the basic features of the cloud.
2. Quick Start
IIB is available for deployment under AWS Quick Start. You can read more about this here. This helps you get started quickly by setting up the entire environment in a few clicks. But, if you're planning to migrate your existing architecture to AWS, this may not suit you as the architecture is pre-defined with limited options for customization.
3. IIB on Containers
ACE 11 provides better support for containerization. You can read more about running IIB 10 on containers here and ACE 11 on containers here. After this, the containers can be deployed into fully managed containers such as AWS Elastic Container Service or your own container configuration such as Docker on EC2.
Yes of course, AWS provides the IAAS and you just install whatever you want inside. Make sure you open ports, use specific credentials for the instalation (dont use admin) and everything should work.
IBM also provides docker images of integration bus v10 and APP Connect Enterprise v11. This is true for all their integration tools, MQ, API Management and more.
Not restricted to AWS.
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.