How Do You Create a Puppet Manifest to Install Java?

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Problem scenario
You have Puppet agent and Puppet Master set up and configured to work together. You are are running open source Puppet 5.x on Ubuntu servers in AWS. You want to install Java on the Puppet agent nodes. You tried to use the Java module.

On the Puppet Master server, you ran this: puppet module install puppetlabs-java –version 2.2.0

This is your site.pp file:

class { ‘java’ :
package =’java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel’, …

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Why Cannot You Ping an IP Address of an AWS Server when the Security Group Should Allow for Pinging?

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Problem scenario
In AWS you manually added a Security Group rule for the source of a given IP address. This IP address is either the internal or external IP address. You can ping one of them (either the internal or external IP address). Why cannot you ping each IP address?

Solution
Check to see if a firewall is running on the Linux server.

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How Do You Create and Store an Application-Level Secret on the AWS Cloud?

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Problem scenario
You want to create and save an application-level secret in AWS. What do you do?

Solution
Use Secrets Manager.

Procedures

  1. Log into the AWS console.
  2. Go to “Secrets Manager”
  3. Click “Store a new secret”
  4. For the secret type choose “Other type of secrets”.
  5. For the left-most field,

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How Do You Create a GCP VM to Be a Web Server?

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Problem scenario
You have a GCP server. You can run curl commands to its URL via localhost. But with a URL constructed with the server’s external IP address the curl command times out. You cannot reach the URL from your workstation. How do you get the GCP server to present the web service to other machines?

Solution
Modify the firewall rule by following these steps below.

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How Do You Delete an Aurora Database when You Get an Error about It Not Being Started?

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Problem scenario
You are trying to delete an Aurora database but you get this error: “This database is not started.” What do you do?

Possible Solution #1 (with the web console)
1. Log into the web console.
2. Go to “Amazon RDS”.
3. Go to “Databases”
4. Click on the Aurora cluster of the database you want to delete or its parent.

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How Do You Increase the Hard Disk Space of an Existing GCP Server?

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Problem scenario
You need a larger hard disk on a Google Cloud Platform server. What should you do?

Solution

  1. In the GCP web console go to “VM instances”
  2. Click on the VM’s name (e.g., instance-1) that is hyperlinked.
  3. Find “Boot disk and local disks”. There should be a list with a “Name” column.
  4. Click on the hyperlinked name (e.g.,

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How Do You Create a Build Pipeline in Azure?

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Problem scenario
You want to use an Azure pipeline. You want it to perform a build. What should you do?

Solution
Prerequisites
i. You must have a supported code versioning system with certain files. As of 10/7/19 the options are Azure Repos Git, Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub, GitHub Enterprise Server, other Git repositories or Subversion. If you follow steps 1 through 4 of How Do You Build a Java Program with Maven?

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