Eric Simmerman
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Configure my Amazon EC2 instances to only accept traffic from the Elastic Load Balancer
The AWS Elastic Load Balancing FAQ has this very relevant question:
Can I configure my Amazon EC2 instances to only accept traffic from the Elastic Load Balancer?
followed by an ever so helpful response:
Yes.
Seriously - no links, no reference to documentation, nothing. With such a tremendous investment in infrastructure you'd think Amazon might spend a day or two on documentation...alas.
Insult to injury it's also not at all obvious what you need to do to configure your Security Group to support this very commonly desired configuration. I'm here to help.
Use the not-so-documented 'amazon-elb/amazon-elb-sg' Security Group name as the Inbound Source for your Security Group rule to filter on traffic coming from your AWS ELB. Enjoy!
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Resolving git-gc error on Mac
During today's maintenance run of git-gc on our Mac hosted repo I encountered screenfulls of nasty fatal error messages - but the last two were a clue to the root cause:
fatal: Unable to create temporary file: Too many open files
error: failed to run repack
This related post helped me find a quick cure which involved simply bumping the ulimit up temporarily.
# ulimit -n 10024
> git gc
Easy fix for a potentially bad day.
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Play framework on AWS
Steps I took to get a Play framework app up and running on a micro AWS instance running Ubuntu 11.10
- sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk unzip
- wget http://download.playframework.org/releases/play-1.2.4.zip
- sudo unzip play-1.2.4.zip -d /usr/local/share/
- install Dominik Dorn's startup script
- wget https://raw.github.com/gist/1290012/a31b1d079705ea7ccf6d1fdc866027b674e62841/...
- sudo mv playframework /etc/init/
- update the script with proper paths
- useradd username -g www-data -m -d /home/username -s /bin/bash
- install your app
- initctl start playframework
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Install APC on CentOS 5.6
The following resolved a few gotchas I encountered installing APC on an old instance of CentOS 5.6
- mount -o remount,exec /tmp
- yum install pcre-devel
- pecl install apc
- mount -o remount,noexec /tmp
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Loading Fixtures for FunctionalTest in Play Framework
There are three possible gotchas with FunctionalTest on Play Framework 1.2.4:
- Ensure your db is configured for READ_UNCOMMITED transactions. See the release notes for more...
- Make certain that you import junit's @Before and **NOT** play.mvc.Before
- Load your Fixtures in a Job. See the example below.
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