Good day, I will need to update this migration guide to add an important step. Between steps #7 and #8, you need to install the Azure packages in order for Arches to bind properly to your storage container.
sudo pip install azure azure-storage azure-servicebus azure-mgmt azure-servicemanagement-legacy Thanks, Joel On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 3:00:05 PM UTC+8, 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.
