Re: deployment observation OT
Re: deployment observation OT
- Subject: Re: deployment observation OT
- From: Theodore Petrosky <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 16:47:58 -0400
Oh, and I found that you can use Centos 7 (and 6 and even 5) (i like centos really)
when you select launch new instance, you have to go to the AWS Marketplace and search for Centos… They have buried it for some reason.
Ted
> On May 14, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Pascal Robert <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Le 14 mai 2017 à 15:51, Theodore Petrosky <email@hidden> a écrit :
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>> Actually I logged in and found they have a Red Hat distro so I am going through the set up to see how different it is.
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> It not much different. The article you mention do have a point: using EPEL and other third-party repositories with Amazon Linux is not perfect. But CentOS is available as an AMI image, I don’t know why you can’t see it.
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>> I screwed something up on the first try and I made the instance unresponsive. The EC2 web page said it was running but I couldn’t get in. so I killed it and I starting over.
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>> weird
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>>> On May 14, 2017, at 3:37 PM, Pascal Robert <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>>> Le 14 mai 2017 à 12:16, Theodore Petrosky <email@hidden> a écrit :
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>>>> Pascal,
>>>>
>>>> I am logged into AWS right now and I don’t see where I could set to use Centos on AWS. But maybe I don’t understand something. What I see is:
>>>>
>>>> Amazon Linux AMI 2017.03.0 (HVM), or
>>>> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2, or
>>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (HVM), or
>>>> Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS, or
>>>> Windows
>>>>
>>>> I just googled and found this:
>>>> https://www.exratione.com/2014/08/do-not-use-amazon-linux/
>>>
>>> I agree with this article for PHP, C or Ruby development, but for Java apps, most of his arguments are moot.
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>>>>
>>>> That said, this is the only free distro they offer.
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>>> Ubuntu Server should be free too.
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>>>> I may pay whatever it is for a month and see if installing is very different.
>>>>
>>>> Of the choices, which would you recommend?
>>>
>>> Linode! Cheaper and faster.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ted
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>>>>> On May 14, 2017, at 12:02 PM, Pascal Robert <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>>>> Don’t use CentOS 6 if you need good disk performance. I evaluated Amazon Linux and CentOS 6, and MySQL was a 50% slower on CentOS 6 on AWS than Amazon Linux. I guess the virtualization driver for CentOS 6 is not great.
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>>>>>> Le 14 mai 2017 à 10:47, Steve Peery <email@hidden> a écrit :
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>>>>>> Hey Ted,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for your observations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I plan to set up a new WO deployment on AWS soon. What would you recommend as a starting point for documentation/instructions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On May 13, 2017, at 8:59 AM, Theodore Petrosky <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just want to say that I am gaining experience deploying my apps in the Amazon Web Services.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am really impressed with the responsiveness. At one point I was comparing the same app. with one instance running in Centos VM on a mac mini locally (in vmware eSXI) and one on the free EC2.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I really feel the difference in responsiveness, and it was ‘relatively easy to setup’!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am excited! It’s fun!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ted
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