Thanks for sharing your experience so far and congratulations on the grant. Cheers, Alexei
Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173 On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:15 PM, Joel Aldor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alexei, > > I've only had two months of working with Azure, but apart from the > interface I don't see much difference with AWS as far as administering > servers are concerned, and I don't think I'll encounter problems with > Arches running on Azure. The reason we made the migration is because we got > an Azure sponsorship through a software grant, so that will definitely save > us money. :) > > Regards, > > Joel > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Alexei Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for sharing Joel (and for all the hard work)! I'm sure this will >> be helpful to many users. How do you find AWS vs. Azure? >> Cheers, >> Alexei >> >> >> Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173 >> <(971)%20227-3173> >> >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Joel Aldor <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi guys! >>> >>> I'm sharing to you the steps in migrating your Arches server from AWS to >>> Microsoft Azure. I must admit the whole migration was pretty hard, since >>> AWS doesn't allow you to export your Linux EC2 instances to another cloud >>> provider. But after weeks of trial and error, I'm finally able to migrate >>> it completely. :) >>> >>> These steps will work, assuming your Arches is installed on an Ubuntu >>> server running on an EC2 instance, and you're using S3 for your image and >>> file storage. >>> >>> 1.) Launch an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS virtual machine on your Azure portal. >>> Make sure your virtual machine has the same security group settings that >>> you have on your AWS EC2 instance. >>> >>> 2.) Log in to your Ubuntu server, then create your root password >>> sudo passwd root >>> >>> To allow remote login using root, you also need to edit the file >>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and comment out the following line: >>> PermitRootLogin without-password >>> >>> Just below it, add the following line: >>> PermitRootLogin yes >>> >>> Save the file, then restart SSH: >>> service ssh restart >>> >>> 3.) Create an Azure storage account, then launch an Azure storage >>> container. Once you created the container, get the Azure container name and >>> access key, which you will use on step #5. >>> >>> 4.) Get your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key from your AWS >>> Console's IAM, which you will use on step #5. >>> >>> 5.) Migrate your AWS S3 bucket to the new Azure storage container using >>> Flexify.io. Create a free account on Flexify, then launch a migration >>> task. I was able to migrate all my files totalling 6.5GB in just about 20 >>> minutes. >>> >>> 6.) Start the server migration process from AWS EC2 to Azure using a >>> custom rsync shell script. Follow the pretty straightforward steps from >>> this link here: https://cloudnull.io/2012/07/cloud-server-migration (Go >>> to the section that says *Migrate using RSYNC The Easy Way *and follow >>> the steps there). After the migration, the new server will automatically >>> reboot itself. >>> >>> *Note: the rsync shell script uses Rackspace directory defaults, but it >>> worked pretty fine on me, so just hit ENTER to continue when you're >>> prompted to apply the default* >>> >>> 7.) Login to the new server, then restart Elasticsearch and Apache. By >>> this point, your new server is now hosting Arches, and you can already open >>> Arches on your browser. However it's still pointing to the old S3 bucket. >>> >>> 8.) Install the django-storages-redux by following the steps from here: >>> https://github.com/schumannd/django-storages. This is a forked >>> django-storages package, because the original django-storages has seen no >>> commit applied since March 2014, and there were errors on the AzureStorage >>> library. >>> >>> 9.) Comment out the AWS variables on settings.py and instead add these >>> variables: >>> >>> DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.azure_storage.AzureStorage' >>> AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME = '<your Azure account name>' >>> AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY = '<your Azure access key>' >>> AZURE_CONTAINER = '<your container name>' >>> MEDIA_URL = '<the URL of your Azure container, which is normally >>> https://your_azure_account_name.blob.core.windows.net/your_a >>> zure_container>' >>> >>> 10.) Save your settings.py file, then restart your Apache server. >>> >>> *And you're done! *You can now point your domain to the new Azure >>> virtual machine and start decommissioning your AWS resources. >>> >>> If there's any problem you're encountering, please let me know here and >>> I'd be happy to help! >>> >>> Special thanks to Adam Cox for helping me out on some parts of this >>> migration process! >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Joel >>> >>> -- >>> -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To >>> unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. >>> For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/fo >>> rum/archesproject?hl=en >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Arches Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. 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