Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-24 Thread Paul Hoadley
Hi Joe, On 25/02/2011, at 1:28 PM, Joe Kramer wrote: > WOlastic is no longer supported by Ubermind. Here's the info that I got from > our engineer who was behind WOlastic: Thanks a lot for that. The topic has come up a couple of times on the list lately, and it's handy to have that confirmed

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-24 Thread Joe Kramer
Hi Paul and gang, WOlastic is no longer supported by Ubermind. Here's the info that I got from our engineer who was behind WOlastic: The original intent of WOlastic was to quickly deploy secure WO applications > into the cloud. -- Public AMI's that were prepackaged were probably great > for the

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Paul Hoadley
On 24/02/2011, at 12:01 PM, Simon wrote: > ps. the pre-rolled ami i put up some time ago should also be > considered defunct. i'll remove it from the wiki now... Great. Remove that whole section ("Public WO AMIs"), as there don't seem to be _any_ that are maintained any more. Jesse, scratch w

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Paul Hoadley
Hi Jesse, On 24/02/2011, at 11:50 AM, Jesse Tayler wrote: > On Feb 23, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Paul Hoadley wrote: > >> I haven't used those particular scripts, but eyeballing them they _seem_ to >> be dependent on the pre-rolled appserver AMIs, also supplied by Simon. > > It does work with public A

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Simon
> I haven't used those particular scripts, but eyeballing them they _seem_ to > be dependent on the pre-rolled appserver AMIs, also supplied by Simon. nope. they are designed to be used with a scratch linux ami. we use amazon linux. the ami id's are likely to be different because amazon used to c

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Jesse Tayler
On Feb 23, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Paul Hoadley wrote: > I haven't used those particular scripts, but eyeballing them they _seem_ to > be dependent on the pre-rolled appserver AMIs, also supplied by Simon. It does work with public AMIs - not simon dependent. The install scripts are designed to illu

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Paul Hoadley
I agree with Jesse's sentiment, but just to fill in some blanks... On 24/02/2011, at 1:32 AM, Jesse Tayler wrote: > do NOT use WOLastic WOlastic _seems_ to be abandonware. It doesn't look like their website has been updated since mid-2009, and their AMIs seem to be of a similar vintage. WOla

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Samm
we use it to do manage 2 environments (test and live). Within that we add config for each node (app server, db, web server) and then use puppet to manage all the dependencies (s/w and refs to each other) as well as URL handling etc etc. The, here, is that adding a node is a matter of adding to ec

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Jesse Tayler
On Feb 23, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Martin Samm wrote: > We then use Puppet to automate installing an array of required packages etc. oh? got scripts or examples? sounds like an approach we might want to document the examples we have require just a few dependancies - is Puppet good for a larger doc

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Samm
Jesse, we're running on a couple of Ubuntu AMIs; one is now a bit old and defunct but we've recently switched to ami-88f504e1 this is Ubuntu Lucid Lynx LTS We then use Puppet to automate installing an array of required packages etc. regards Martin On 23 February 2011 22:02, Jesse Tayler wr

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Jesse Tayler
I've done some updating of the wiki page, if anyone has validated other AMIs you can list them or send to me and I'll list them - also any suggestions, comments or ideas. http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Deploying+on+Amazon+EC2 http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Kevin Hinkson
On Feb 23, 2011, at 17:53, Paul Hoadley wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On 24/02/2011, at 3:25 AM, Kevin Hinkson wrote: > >> Does anyone have any recommendations as to which AMI to use in the US (east >> or west). The ami used in Simon's example works fine but is only available >> in the EU. It look

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Paul Hoadley
Hi Kevin, On 24/02/2011, at 3:25 AM, Kevin Hinkson wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations as to which AMI to use in the US (east > or west). The ami used in Simon's example works fine but is only available in > the EU. It looks to me like a basic 64 bit Amazon Linux AMI on EBS. Can I use

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Jesse Tayler
I've had no troubles using AMIs of the same Unix variant, right now, I have this in the US region: ami-38c33651 It's a "tiny" instance which works great for testing, but I've noticed the memory overhead is so low -- that if you try to launch more than one application instance, you'll be uncere

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Kevin Hinkson
Does anyone have any recommendations as to which AMI to use in the US (east or west). The ami used in Simon's example works fine but is only available in the EU. It looks to me like a basic 64 bit Amazon Linux AMI on EBS. Can I use the current 64 bit base ami or should I be using another? On

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 2011-02-23 à 10:57, Jesse Tayler a écrit : > Glad to! > > As I recall, I wasn't able to update their website or blog or contact whoever > set it up, but we can make sure our wiki makes it clear it isn't supported. > > Where's a page on a wiki I can alter? > > I'd love to help write up som

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Jesse Tayler
Glad to! As I recall, I wasn't able to update their website or blog or contact whoever set it up, but we can make sure our wiki makes it clear it isn't supported. Where's a page on a wiki I can alter? I'd love to help write up some data about the Simon approach, I've done it here and I'm very

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Ramsey Gurley
Hi Jesse, If they don't work or are out of date, I would suggest making note of that on the wiki. Whoever put them there was nice enough to do so when it was relevant, but that person is not obligated to maintain it forever. If the info is no longer correct and you know about it, do the commun

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Kevin Hinkson
On 2011-02-23, at 11:15 AM, Jesse Tayler wrote: > they don't work and aren't supported - > > they are leftover and should get removed, but of course whoever put it up > abandoned it in place so people read it and thing it might work. > > there have been changes in how you can setup a server, n

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Kevin Hinkson
On 2011-02-23, at 11:00 AM, Paul D Yu wrote: > Kevin > > Try to do a sudo passwd on the root account. Thanks Paul. That worked. > > Paul > On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Kevin Hinkson wrote: > >> Hi, >> I setup an Amazon EC2 instance using the WOlastic image listed here >> (ami-0be80962):http

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Jesse Tayler
they don't work and aren't supported - they are leftover and should get removed, but of course whoever put it up abandoned it in place so people read it and thing it might work. there have been changes in how you can setup a server, now it is best like "Simon says" to use a generic instance and

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread James Cicenia
Simons scripts with a small amount of editing worked great. And I now love amazon.. More than my old Xserves which had performed flawlessly Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Jesse Tayler wrote: > do NOT use WOLastic > > those pages should get taken down, it is not a good way t

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Kevin Hinkson
On 2011-02-23, at 11:02 AM, Jesse Tayler wrote: > do NOT use WOLastic > > those pages should get taken down, it is not a good way to setup Out of curiosity, why is it not a good way to setup? > > check out simon's install scripts or check back in threads about amazon to > see how to get that

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Jesse Tayler
do NOT use WOLastic those pages should get taken down, it is not a good way to setup check out simon's install scripts or check back in threads about amazon to see how to get that working. On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Paul D Yu wrote: > Kevin > > Try to do a sudo passwd on the root account.

Re: Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Paul D Yu
Kevin Try to do a sudo passwd on the root account. Paul On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Kevin Hinkson wrote: > Hi, > I setup an Amazon EC2 instance using the WOlastic image listed here > (ami-0be80962):http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Deploying+on+Amazon+EC2 > However, I have not

Amazon EC2 Image

2011-02-23 Thread Kevin Hinkson
Hi, I setup an Amazon EC2 instance using the WOlastic image listed here (ami-0be80962):http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Deploying+on+Amazon+EC2 However, I have not been able to find the su password for this image so I can drop to root. This question was also asked on the google g