'OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2' Workshop

As part of Alliances with Global Partners program SUN announce OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 Beta private program and SUN also announce http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press-release/release_2008_16.html”;> MySQL support for Amazon EC2 users

See also: Getting started with OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 and Official EC2 blog

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Bellow I try to summarize my Solaris on Amazon AWS (EC2 , S3) field experience reusing my Linux, Solaris , xVM / XEN theme related knowledge:

• Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) from developer view
• Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) environment Overview
• Amazon EC2 and S3
• Amazon EC2 Instance Types
• Amazon EC2 instances are purely dynamic in nature
• Amazon EC2 Ephemeral – no persistent store
• Amazon EC2 Instance boot process
• Amazon EC2 Steps towards persistence
• Amazon S3 for Amazon EC2 users
• Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) Known Issues
• Typical AMI image creation processes (Comming soon)
• Suggested AMI image creation for Solaris (Comming soon)
• Typical AMI image usage processes (Comming soon)
• Suggested AMI image usage for Solaris (Comming soon)
• Local xVM / XEN environment as main development tool
• Hands-on Experince: OpenSolaris on Amazon AWS (EC2 and S3)
• Creating OpenSolaris based JeOS

 

• JeOS on OpenSolaris Nevada line
• Netboot install of OpenSolaris Nevada line
• FreeWare SW for OpenSolaris Nevada line

 

• OpenSolaris 2008.05 released
• JeOS on OpenSolaris Indiana line
• Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 into xVM or XEN VM in PARA mode
• Determining OpenSolaris 200805 CLI JeOS RNJS conf
• Creating OpenSolaris CLI JeOS RNJS by Uninstall
• Instalation of IPS freeware SW into OpenSolaris or
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• ec2ify: Adding Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) features to your Solaris VM instance
• Porting Solaris to Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) – need for ec2ify scripts
• ec2ify:ident 5 required steps to login into instance
• ec2ify:me 5 optional steps to parametrize instance
• Pre-Prepared AMI images plus Inst&Conf hits
• Pre-build SXDE79 JeOS RNJS AMI images
• AMI Evaluation Image: Liferay on Glassfish bundle DEMO
• Inst&Conf: Liferay 5.0 on Glassfish bundle DEMO
• AMI Developer Image: Glassfish & MySQL bundle from Java EE
• Inst&Conf: SGMJ (Solaris Glassfish MySQL Java) Stack
• AMI Composite Image: Empty SXDE79 JeOS RNJS + S3 Glassfish V3 TP2 update
• Download & Run: WebSynergy – Demonstrating AMI update from ZIP on S3
• Pre-build OpenSolaris 2008.05 JeOS RNJS AMI images

• Get & Inst: Net based install of IPS packages into OpenSolaris 2008.05
• New IPS packaging system
  
• Prepare Boot Environment
  
• Check repository setup
  
• Install Glassfish and MySQL as packages selection
  
• Install WebStack AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) as cluster bundle
  
• Finalize Boot Environment
  
• Now, you are ready for (re)bundling
  

• Glassfish 2.1 App Server and MySQL 5.1 AMI on OpenSolaris 2008.11
• Specifics of OpenSolaris setup on Amazon EC2
• Create MySQL 5.1 AMI-752CCB1C instance and install there GF 2.1
• Install JDK6 from OpenSolaris release repo
• Install MySQL 5.1 and J Connector
• Glasshish 2.1 Install from JAR distribution and configure it as non-root user
• Glassfish 2.1 AMI Create Info Phase
• Glassfish 2.1 AMI Cleaning phase
• Glassfish 2.1 AMI Rebuilding process (From inside AMI)
• Glassfish 2.1 AMI User First Run Postconfiguration (Securing)
• Amazon AWS (EC2, S3) usefull tools and libs
• Popular Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) programming LIBraries
• GUI tools for Amazon AWS (EC2,S3) – Usefull Firefox Plugins

Encourage experimenting: Try & See in Amazon AWS (EC2, S3) enviroment

• Will OpenSolaris 2008.05 instance survive reboot after update ?
• Will OpenSolaris 2008.05 OS survive reboot after update ? Yes !!!
• Will OpenSolaris 2008.05 data disks survive reboot after update ? No ?! Fixed !!!
• Getting sence of ephemeral store behaviour under OpenSolaris (UFS,ZFS)
• m1.small disk perf on UFS (1 disk)
• m1.small disk perf on ZFS (1 disk)
• m1.large disk perf on ZFS mirror (2 disks)
• m1.xlarge disk perf on ZFS raidz (4 disks)
• Amazon EC2 OpenSolaris re-bundling process trouble shutting

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