A Technical I.T./DevOps Blog
Problem scenario
In Google Cloud Platform you have a Debian Linux server. You want to install Puppet master on it. What should you do?
Solution
Prerequisites
We suggest having at least 4.5 GB of memory. This can be from RAM or a combination of RAM and swap space. To create 4 GB of /swap/space you can see this posting as a guide,
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Problem scenario
You are running Ubuntu 16.x Linux and want to install Apache Cassandra. How do you install Apache Cassandra on Linux Ubuntu Linux as a single-server configuration?
Solution
These directions will work to deploy Debian 9 Linux too. They have been tested to work in AWS and GCP.
Prerequisites
i. This solution assumes that you have installed Apache Ant and Git.
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Problem scenario
You want every Linux server to have 2 GB of virtual memory. You want to transfer a Bash script to each server and run it with sudoer privileges. How do you transfer a file and execute it as a sudoer user?
Solution
1. Install Ansible. If you need directions on how to do this with RHEL, see this posting. For SUSE,
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Problem scenario
You want to dedicate 2 GB of your hard drive to be virtual memory (swap space for memory-intensive applications). What should you do to script this that will work on any distribution of Linux (e.g., a RedHat derivative including CentOS/RHEL/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, or SUSE)?
Solution
Overview
We consider virtual memory to be a hybrid of RAM “and disk space that running processes can use.
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Problem scenario
You want to install Apache Cassandra on CentOS, RHEL, or Fedora Linux. What do you do?
Solution
These directions will deploy Apache Cassandra in a solo-server configuration. This will not create a cluster. These directions will work for a physical server, a VM, an EC-2 instance in AWS or a virtual machine in GCP.
Prerequisites
i. This assumes that you have 3 GB of memory (in combination of either RAM or virtual memory,
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Problem scenario
You created your own Docker image. You want to upload it to a repository so it is available to other servers. You want to upload a Docker image from your server into ECR (in AWS). You do not know the name of the repository. How do you do this?
Solution
Prerequisites
a. This assumes that ECR has been set up. If you need assistance,
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Problem scenario
You run “sudo npm” or “sudo node” and you get “command not found” error messages. What should you do?
Solution
Modify the /etc/sudoers file. Find the stanza with secure_path. Append “:/usr/local/bin” (with no quotes) to the line.
Here is an example of how the stanza should look (it is often on line 80 of /etc/sudoers):
Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
Once the /etc/sudoers file has been saved,
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Problem scenario
You want to find out what version of sudo is on your Linux server. What do you do?
Solution
Run this command:
man sudo | grep Sudo | awk ‘{print $2}’
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Problem scenario
You want to see what servers are in your HDFS cluster (e.g., the DataNodes and the NameNodes). What command can display the FQDNs of such servers?
Solution
Run this command from the NameNode:
hdfs dfsadmin -report | grep Hostname
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Problem scenario
You installed Jira 7.x on RHEL 7.x in AWS. You try to go to the URL to finish installing and configuring it, but the web UI does not load. On the back-end you see that there is a service listening on port 8080 (with a sudo netstat -anlp | grep 8080 command). You know that now AWS Security Group is blocking port 8080 from the external IP address of the server.
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