Thanks as well Alexei :) I just re-did the steps for another server pointing to training.philippineheritagemap.org, which will serve as our training environment for our volunteers. Now I can finally decommission my AWS resources and totally get rid of it.
The good thing with Azure is that it lets you increase server size without having to shut down the virtual machine, unlike AWS where you have to stop the EC2 instance first. That's what I found out so far. Regards, Joel On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 1:56:44 AM UTC+8, Alexei Peters wrote: > > Thanks for sharing your experience so far and congratulations on the grant. > Cheers, > Alexei > > > Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173 > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:15 PM, Joel Aldor <joel....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi Alexei, >> >> I've only had two months of working with Azure, but apart from the >> interface I don't see much difference with AWS as far as administering >> servers are concerned, and I don't think I'll encounter problems with >> Arches running on Azure. The reason we made the migration is because we got >> an Azure sponsorship through a software grant, so that will definitely save >> us money. :) >> >> Regards, >> >> Joel >> >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Alexei Peters <ape...@fargeo.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for sharing Joel (and for all the hard work)! I'm sure this will >>> be helpful to many users. How do you find AWS vs. Azure? >>> Cheers, >>> Alexei >>> >>> >>> Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173 >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Joel Aldor <joel....@gmail.com >>> <javascript:>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi guys! >>>> >>>> I'm sharing to you the steps in migrating your Arches server from AWS >>>> to Microsoft Azure. I must admit the whole migration was pretty hard, >>>> since >>>> AWS doesn't allow you to export your Linux EC2 instances to another cloud >>>> provider. But after weeks of trial and error, I'm finally able to migrate >>>> it completely. :) >>>> >>>> These steps will work, assuming your Arches is installed on an Ubuntu >>>> server running on an EC2 instance, and you're using S3 for your image and >>>> file storage. >>>> >>>> 1.) Launch an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS virtual machine on your Azure portal. >>>> Make sure your virtual machine has the same security group settings that >>>> you have on your AWS EC2 instance. >>>> >>>> 2.) Log in to your Ubuntu server, then create your root password >>>> sudo passwd root >>>> >>>> To allow remote login using root, you also need to edit the file >>>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and comment out the following line: >>>> PermitRootLogin without-password >>>> >>>> Just below it, add the following line: >>>> PermitRootLogin yes >>>> >>>> Save the file, then restart SSH: >>>> service ssh restart >>>> >>>> 3.) Create an Azure storage account, then launch an Azure storage >>>> container. Once you created the container, get the Azure container name >>>> and >>>> access key, which you will use on step #5. >>>> >>>> 4.) Get your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key from your AWS >>>> Console's IAM, which you will use on step #5. >>>> >>>> 5.) Migrate your AWS S3 bucket to the new Azure storage container using >>>> Flexify.io. Create a free account on Flexify, then launch a migration >>>> task. I was able to migrate all my files totalling 6.5GB in just about 20 >>>> minutes. >>>> >>>> 6.) Start the server migration process from AWS EC2 to Azure using a >>>> custom rsync shell script. Follow the pretty straightforward steps from >>>> this link here: https://cloudnull.io/2012/07/cloud-server-migration (Go >>>> to the section that says *Migrate using RSYNC The Easy Way *and follow >>>> the steps there). After the migration, the new server will automatically >>>> reboot itself. >>>> >>>> *Note: the rsync shell script uses Rackspace directory defaults, but it >>>> worked pretty fine on me, so just hit ENTER to continue when you're >>>> prompted to apply the default* >>>> >>>> 7.) Login to the new server, then restart Elasticsearch and Apache. By >>>> this point, your new server is now hosting Arches, and you can already >>>> open >>>> Arches on your browser. However it's still pointing to the old S3 bucket. >>>> >>>> 8.) Install the django-storages-redux by following the steps from >>>> here: https://github.com/schumannd/django-storages. This is a forked >>>> django-storages package, because the original django-storages has seen no >>>> commit applied since March 2014, and there were errors on the AzureStorage >>>> library. >>>> >>>> 9.) Comment out the AWS variables on settings.py and instead add these >>>> variables: >>>> >>>> DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.azure_storage.AzureStorage' >>>> AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME = '<your Azure account name>' >>>> AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY = '<your Azure access key>' >>>> AZURE_CONTAINER = '<your container name>' >>>> MEDIA_URL = '<the URL of your Azure container, which is normally >>>> https://your_azure_account_name.blob.core.windows.net/your_azure_container >>>> >' >>>> >>>> 10.) Save your settings.py file, then restart your Apache server. >>>> >>>> *And you're done! *You can now point your domain to the new Azure >>>> virtual machine and start decommissioning your AWS resources. >>>> >>>> If there's any problem you're encountering, please let me know here and >>>> I'd be happy to help! >>>> >>>> Special thanks to Adam Cox for helping me out on some parts of this >>>> migration process! >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Joel >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- To post, send email to arches...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. To >>>> unsubscribe, send email to archesprojec...@googlegroups.com >>>> <javascript:>. 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