Category Archives: Amazon EC2

How to Install a Puppet Master and Client Server on Centos 5.2

Posted on February 21, 2009 by admin

Puppet is an open-source next-generation server automation tool. It is composed of a declarative language for expressing system configuration, a client and server for distributing it, and a library for realizing the configuration. Setup the EPEL repos for Centos – … Continue reading →

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AttributeError: CHECKSUM_VALUE Error with Rightscale Centos AMI Creation Script

Posted on February 19, 2009 by admin

Rightscale created a great script to build an AMI from scratch – see http://blog.rightscale.com/2007/09/26/rightimages-changelog/ I got this error when trying to build the image from YUM. AttributeError: CHECKSUM_VALUE rightscale This worked for me; rpm -qa | grep yum-metadata-parser rpm -ev –nodeps … Continue reading →

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How To Create a Centos 5.2 EC2 Amazon Machine Image – AMI

Posted on February 13, 2009 by admin

Create the disk image dd if=/dev/zero of=my-image.fs bs=1M count=1024 Create root file system inside file mke2fs -F -j my-image.fs Mount it mkdir /mnt/ec2-fs mount -o loop my-image.fs /mnt/ec2-fs Create /dev mkdir /mnt/ec2-fs/dev Populate /dev with a minimal set of devices … Continue reading →

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Two Great Firefox Extensions for Amazon EC2 and S3

Posted on February 13, 2009 by admin

These are great tools to get started on Amazon’s EC2 and S3 products. Elasticfox - http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609 S3fox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/policy/0/3247/41288 Anyone know of any better/alternative tools, let me know.

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How To Install EC2 Automatic Scaling App Scalr on Centos 5.2

Posted on February 12, 2009 by admin

Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon’s EC2. It allows you to create server farms through a web-based interface using prebuilt AMI’s for load balancers (pound or nginx), app servers (apache, others), databases (mysql master-slave, … Continue reading →

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How to Setup Amazon EC2 AMI Tools on Vista

Posted on February 11, 2009 by admin

Download the zip package – http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-ami-tools.zip Unzip it and put it in C:\ec2 Set your environment variables, there are 2 ways to do this.  1. Control Panel – System – Advanced System Settings – Environment Variables – User Variables 2. … Continue reading →

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