Hi Adam, Sure thing! Although this will only be specifically for the migration part. If they already are going to deploy Arches straight to Azure, I think steps 8 to 10 will only apply.
Thanks. Joel On Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 3:01:37 AM UTC+8, Adam Cox wrote: > > Hi Joel, would you mind if I added this documentation to the Arches > github wiki <https://github.com/archesproject/arches/wiki>? It would be > helpful for future developers working in a similar environment. > > Adam > > On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 1:00:05 AM UTC-6, Joel Aldor wrote: >> >> Hi guys! >> >> If you plan to migrate from AWS to Microsoft Azure, I'm sharing to you >> these steps which I created on my own. 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, and lots of >> research, I'm finally able to migrate Arches 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 change 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 >> >> *Note: Take note of your root password, because you will need it on step >> #6 as you go through the rsync shell script.* >> >> 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_azure_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/forum/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.
