Copy of post to the Geonode Google Groups list: Greetings from Kathmandu.
About to take our first baby steps into the wonderful world of Geonode... Some Background: We would like to set-up a Nepal Government Geonode on Amazon EC2 Preferably an EBS backed instance with (rather large) attached data volumes which could be "stopped" and held in cheap dormant reserve to be only used and fired up for training events etc (or after the big earthquake finally hits...) Current scheduled load shedding here in Nepal is about 23 hour per day power-cuts, with three hour gas queues plus generator problems that wipe out even our massive rack of backup batteries for the OpenSUSE server in our office. Also not possible to find any other local Ubuntu server that we could borrow time on within the Nepalese Government. Trying to run from the Virtual Box Ubuntu running on a Windows server does not sound the most attractive or stable long-term option.... So...time to ask.... How-to-Geonode on Amazon EC2? We can set up an Amazon EC2 AMI OpenGeo Suite rather quickly using this quite nice documentation: http://suite.opengeo.org/docs/usermanual/installation/aws/index.html Is there an up-to-date Geonode equivalent nice step-by-step guide to the above? Which exact Ubuntu AMI is recommended? How many cores needed etc etc? If we instead wanted to start with an AMI with a Drupal website already also on board which to choose? Again, to be clear, ideally we would like a read-made, up-to-date, optimized Amazon GeoNode AMI that is EBS instant-backed so we can hibernate it cheaply and easily ... For Geonode on EC2 I see only see one AMI “GeoNode 1.0.1 Cloud Edition (UnSupported)” : http://aws.amazon.com/amis/7497703688409998?_encoding=UTF8&queryArg=s... I got it up and running but then I’m a bit lost on what else needs customizing or done Is there any guide available for it? Ideally, could somebody please share an Amazon AMI for the latest GeoNode release? I also stumbled upon various scripts that could be used for installation on a plain Ubuntu AMI. e.g. https://github.com/ingenieroariel/chef-geonode/blob/master/fabfile.py https://github.com/ingenieroariel/chef-geonode https://github.com/jj0hns0n/geonode-admin But I couldn’t find any nice step-by-step guides to go along with any of these scripts and I also presume all need modifying to be up-to-date.... I also watched the “re-assuring” video “installing-geonode.swf”.... There was once apparently also an old: “Guide steps on a fresh Ubuntu installation in Amazon EC2:”\ http://ietherpad.com/geonode but it’s now gone....very grateful if somebody could please re-post or update the instructions.. After an Amazon EC2 Geonode is finally up and running the next steps would be to figure out how to attach to stop/store the instance and also attach it an EBS/S3 Data- archive permanent attached so it all can be put too cheap sleep until it's really needed to be woken up.... I see when you upgrade from the free community edition in OpenGeo Suite what you get for the USD$500 fee appears to be mostly advice and support on backing up and attaching the server and associated EBS/S3 geodata archives. Has anybody got any advice on how to best to also do this lovely Amazon trick with an Amazon based Geonode server? Finally looking closer at other various tricks now available in Amazon AWS.... Has anybody looked at setting Geonode up using Elastic Beanstalk? What about a AWS "Cloudformation template" for Geonode? PS. Actually has anybody yet managed to use Amazon "Elastic Beanstalk" or a "Cloudformation template" to quickly setup and deploy an automatic scale-able Mapserver/Geoserver cluster? Seems like it would be a really useful thing to have ready and waiting-to-go for easy and fast firing up (especially after a big disaster hits). Many thanks in advance for all comments, advice and help, Cheers, Ian Thomas
