Comments for Cognizant Transmutaion http://blog.ibd.com Internet Bandwidth Development: Composting the Internet for over Two Decades Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:38:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Simple update and clone an Amazon EC2 EBS Boot image by Shlomo Swidler http://blog.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/simple-update-and-clone-an-amazon-ec2-ebs-boot-image/comment-page-1/#comment-1978 Shlomo Swidler Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:38:37 +0000 http://blog.ibd.com/?p=533#comment-1978 Cool. You can create bootable EBS volumes that are formatted with the XFS filesystem, allowing you to "freeze" the filesystem, call the ec2-create-snapshot command, and the "unfreeze" the filesystem. This way you can create a consistent, bootable snapshot of the live-running instance. Here's my article explaining how to do this: http://www.shlomoswidler.com/2010/01/creating-consistent-snapshots-of-live.html Cool.

You can create bootable EBS volumes that are formatted with the XFS filesystem, allowing you to “freeze” the filesystem, call the ec2-create-snapshot command, and the “unfreeze” the filesystem. This way you can create a consistent, bootable snapshot of the live-running instance.

Here’s my article explaining how to do this:

http://www.shlomoswidler.com/2010/01/creating-consistent-snapshots-of-live.html

]]> Comment on Creating an Amazon EC2 AMI for Opscode Chef 0.8 Client and Server by Using the Official Opscode 0.8.x Gems to build EC2 AMI Chef Client and Server « Cognizant Transmutaion http://blog.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/creating-an-amazon-ami-for-chef-0-8/comment-page-1/#comment-1969 Using the Official Opscode 0.8.x Gems to build EC2 AMI Chef Client and Server « Cognizant Transmutaion Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:51:00 +0000 http://blog.ibd.com/?p=333#comment-1969 [...] is an update to my earlier post, Creating an Amazon EC2 AMI for Opscode Chef 0.8, but now using the official Opscode 0.8.x Gems instead of building your own Gems. A lot of the [...] [...] is an update to my earlier post, Creating an Amazon EC2 AMI for Opscode Chef 0.8, but now using the official Opscode 0.8.x Gems instead of building your own Gems. A lot of the [...]

]]> Comment on Installing Apache Thrift on Ubuntu and Leopard by Robert J Berger http://blog.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/installing-apache-thrift-on-ubuntu-and-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-1968 Robert J Berger Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:53:54 +0000 http://blog.ibd.com/?p=172#comment-1968 I haven't looked into this for a while. We aren't using the Thrift interface at this point. We may use it again at some other time. I haven’t looked into this for a while. We aren’t using the Thrift interface at this point. We may use it again at some other time.

]]> Comment on Installing Apache Thrift on Ubuntu and Leopard by nm http://blog.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/installing-apache-thrift-on-ubuntu-and-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-1966 nm Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:08:42 +0000 http://blog.ibd.com/?p=172#comment-1966 I don't suppose you have found a site somewhere that has packaged Thrift as a Ubuntu package? I don’t suppose you have found a site somewhere that has packaged Thrift as a Ubuntu package?

]]>