Prerequisites Before we get started, you will need the following: Step 1: Install Postfix Postfix is an open-source mail transfer agent that can be used to send emails from a Linux machine. To install Postfix on your Amazon EC2 instance, run the following command: After the installation is complete, edit the Postfix configuration file /etc/postfix/main.cf and add […]
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root@test:/var/log/nginx# wget -qO – icanhazip.comwww.xxx.yyy.zzzroot@test:/var/log/nginx# wget -qO- http://ipecho.net/plain | xargs echowww.xxx.yyy.zzzroot@test:/var/log/nginx# wget -qO – icanhazip.comwww.xxx.yyy.zzzroot@test:/var/log/nginx# curl icanhazip.comwww.xxx.yyy.zzzroot@test:/var/log/nginx#
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Data availability is one of the biggest concern in IT industry. After moving most of my services to the AWS cloud I was thinking how I can ensure data availability and accuracy in case of AWS data center failure or what if my EC2 EBS volume gets corrupted. A case study I have a Oracle
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{ “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Action”: [ “rds:Describe*”, “rds:ListTagsForResource”, “rds:Download*”, “ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes”, “ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones”, “ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups”, “ec2:DescribeVpcs” ], “Effect”: “Allow”, “Resource”: “*” }, { “Action”: [ “cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics”, “logs:DescribeLogStreams”, “logs:GetLogEvents” ], “Effect”: “Allow”, “Resource”: “*” } ] }
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There is an easy way to access to Instance information from within. This is very useful when writing scripts who are executed inside the Instance. The method is accessing the Instance Metadata using a HTTP GET call to the IP 169.254.169.254. It works on any EC2 instance and the IP address is always the same.
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