Category: CLOUD

Cloud Journey of GreenTots.in (eCommerce) – IAAS to PAAS to SAAS

When Eva (my better half) decided to start her own small venture (GreenTots.in), sometime in June of 2016, the second challenge we had, was to get a B2C eCommerce website up and running (first being to find a suitable name for the business). The idea was simple... an online portal for…
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Installing Postgres and PhpPostgresAdmin on AWS RHEL host

Installing Postgresql 9.5 To setup YUM repositories, first disable the default postgres repo Edit the /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf [main] section and append the following line exclude=postgresql* Install the official PGDG RPM file. Go to http://yum.postgresql.org and find your correct RPM. For e.g. to install Postgres 9.5 on 64 bit RHEL yum localinstall http://yum.postgresql.org/9.5/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat95-9.5-2.noarch.rpm Note:…
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HowTo: Create a RHEL AWS Image (free tier)

  This post lists the steps needed to create a simple RHEL image on Amazon AWS EC2 service, using the AWS free tier quota. Pre-requisites (Follow the steps given here. A brief overview is given below) Create a AWS account at http://aws.amazon.com (and choose sign in to console). If you are…
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Root access for AWS Linux host (SU)

To login to AWS linux machine images, one has to use public/private key pairs. There are no passwords, so no way to gain root access. But, since the user with which we login has administrator privileges (ec2-user), using 'sudo' command doesn't require any password. So, to go to root user,…
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