A Technical I.T./DevOps Blog
Problem scenario
You want to run a Boto program. But there is an error about necessary parameters not being assigned.
You see a message like this:
botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (ValidationError) when calling the CreateStack operation: Parameters: [KeyName, DBPassword, DBUser] must have values
Where can you see an example of parameters being passed?
Solution
Updated on 3/15/21.
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Problem scenario
You installed Docker (on either Ubuntu or RedHat, see the links if you actually need help with that). You do not want to create a Docker network on your server. How do you create a simple Docker container with Nginx without creating a user-defined network?
Solution
#1 Run these two commands:
docker pull nginx
docker run –name docker-nginx -p 80:80 nginx
# If the command hangs,
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Problem scenario
You are running Ubuntu Linux in AWS. You want to monitor it with your Zabbix server. (To set up a Zabbix server in AWS, see this posting.) How do you install the Zabbix client on an Ubuntu server?
Solution
Section 1
Make sure your AWS Security group allows for inbound connections from the internal IP address of the Zabbix server on any TCP port.
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Problem scenario
You have a RedHat Linux server with only 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM. You want to install Zabbix Server to monitor other servers. How do you deploy Zabbix server to an AWS instance of RHEL?
Solution
1. Install the LAMP stack components by running this command:
sudo yum -y install php httpd mariadb-server
2. Install essential Zabbix components with these four commands:
sudo rpm –import http://repo.zabbix.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-ZABBIX
sudo rpm -Uv
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Continue reading “How Do You Install Zabbix Server on RHEL 7.x Running in AWS?”
Problem scenario
You have set up Zabbix server (i.e., using these directions). How do you configure another RedHat Linux server in AWS to be configured with the client so the Zabbix will monitor it?
Solution
Section 1
1. Make sure your AWS Security group (that governs this AWS instance that will be a client) allows for inbound connections from the internal IP address of the Zabbix server on any TCP port.
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Problem scenario
You want to deploy Apache Tomcat in a Docker container on an AWS instance of Ubuntu Linux. How do you do this?
Solution
1. Install Docker. See this link if you need assistance.
2. Start the Docker service with this command: sudo service docker start
3. Run these two commands:
docker pull consol/tomcat-8.0
docker run consol/tomcat-8.0
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Problem scenario
You are running Linux SUSE in AWS. You want to install and run Apache Tomcat. How do you do this?
Solution
Install it with this command: sudo zypper -n in tomcat
Start it with this command: sudo service tomcat start
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Problem scenario
You want to create several Docker containers each supporting Nginx. You want to be able to browse to the different instances of Nginx from a web browser. How do you have multiple Docker containers support Nginx on one RedHat Enterprise Linux host server?
Solution
These directions are geared toward a RHEL host server instance in AWS.
#1 Install Docker.
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Problem scenario
You want to install Octuopus Deploy (e.g., with the 45 free trial) to an AWS instance of Windows Server 2016. How do you do this?
Solution
This is a simple deployment of Octopus Deploy server for testing or evaluation purposes. Literally any AWS flavor will work as only 512 MB of RAM is needed for Octopus Deploy server to work for minimal evaluation.
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Problem scenario
You want to deploy TeamCity to an AWS instance running Windows Server 2016. How do you do this?
Solution
This is a simple deployment of TeamCity server for testing or evaluation purposes. The flavor of server will depend on the way you use TeamCity server. For a basic deployment, one processor and 1 GB of RAM is sufficient. This is far from enough CPU and memory for any “real” usage of TeamCity.
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