Amazon and Azure both offer many different storage methods. Can you tell us more about how the data is stored and where you will put it? Is this between VM, or is this storage like S3?

@scottalanmiller said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

@fuznutz04 said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

@scottalanmiller said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

But in the past CentOS was there as a direct option. We used it and have customer still using it.

I wonder if MS will offer a base image again in the future with their new "commitment to Linux" claim.

Their commitment was never to CentOS. Ubuntu and Suse.

Ahh, missed that detail.

@Romo I should find out soon enough. Just finished spinning up a new VM for this.

We use azure backup in house for our Windows file servers. I am not the head of the Azure backup group but passed this to my coworker and we will be looking into it. Will report back what we find

@scottalanmiller said in Azure Announces 22% Price Increase for the UK in January 2017:

@JaredBusch is that a Christmas theme on your Telegram?

In the built in gallery. a little ways down. a star field/nova/milkyway. not sure exactly which. but by space fanatic daughter loved that background. so there we go.

Looking at the details page, here is a limitation depending on how you handle client accounts, or your own accounts.

What are the Lightsail service limits?
You can currently create up to 20 Lightsail instances, 5 static IPs, and 3 DNS domain zones in a Lightsail account.

But this is pretty cool. Ability to manage traffic before it hits your VPS:

Can I manage firewall settings for my instance?
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You can control the data traffic for your instances by using the Lightsail firewall. From the Lightsail console, you can set rules about which ports of your instance are publicly accessible for different types of traffic.

So hit a roadblock about code deploy. This was taken considering we update the files. Later realized that we might have user generated content/content added by admin via the Drupal CMS backened. In that case those files for example images will be saved on the one particular EC2 and during a scale down the instance could go down, or may not be available in the newly booted up instance.

Luckily Amazon have another service called Elastic File System used for such cases! I now moved the sites folder of drupal to EFS.

So basic Drupal core files on the EC2 AMI image i created, plus sites folder on EFS, with auto enabling that on each loaded instance by adding the below script:

#cloud-config package_upgrade: true packages: - nfs-utils runcmd: - mkdir -p /var/www/html/efs-mount-point/ - chown ec2-user:ec2-user /var/www/html/efs-mount-point/ - echo "$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone).file-system-id.efs.aws-region.amazonaws.com:/ /var/www/html/efs-mount-point nfs4 nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2 0 0" >> /etc/fstab - mount -a -t nfs4

I am hoping to do a video tutorial this weekend about the whole setup

@Dashrender said in Windows VM in the cloud:

I do realize that, but if the system works on LInux, it will probably work anywhere. 😉

That's not solid logic. Lots of things run on Linux but not in a browser.

I shared this with my parent company and they did an evaluation, but found that its not really useful for them. Initial feedback was " the application supports files only - no other objects (list items, etc.)"

Anyone checked this already and is this the case?

I've also used New Relic for my web application monitoring via Cloudways. It's good.

@scottalanmiller Something tells me that it isn't a lack of funding that is causing their issues.

I solved this by removing all but one profile on the machine, then running
sysprep /oobe /generalize /reboot

Then during the mini setup I joined to Azure AD.

@scottalanmiller said in Deploy Kali Linux on AZURE.:

@prcssupport said in Deploy Kali Linux on AZURE.:

@scottalanmiller said in Deploy Kali Linux on AZURE.:

@prcssupport said in Deploy Kali Linux on AZURE.:

I was looking at it more. It would seem he (my alum) works with\for Microsoft. I wasn't sure which part of the team he was on. I was just looking at placing a Kali build in a cloud instance then I saw this.

Vultr would work too, and be cheaper.

I'm don't use Azure or Vultr(tho I did take look at the latter the other day). I have systems running with profit bricks. I'm working on migrating more of my servers to Linux based systems.

Test out Vultr, it's cheap and good.
Thank you. I will take a deeper dive, I looked from the surface.

@scottalanmiller

It's ok. That's not my favorite by far, but it's what was in the fridge, so it worked.

@JessWaterfordTech said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:

@Ambarishrh based off of builtwith.com I am working with ASP.NET

That's a start. So that still leaves you with dozens of language choices like Perl, Python, F#, Ruby and more. But 99% of the time the site that is ASP.NET will be built with C# or VB.NET. So you'll need to look at the code to determine which one, but C# looks like Java and VB.NET looks like it was written by a little kid, so they are pretty easy to tell apart 😉 No seriously, they look nothing alike, so it's normally super easy to tell.

@aanenih said in Can't Get SpiceWorks on Azure to Authenticate to AD:

Hello Guys, I seem to have found the solution to this issue. By default, Azure has no ports open and that was why i was getting the errors. To solve this problem, i had to create an endpoint for the Virtual machine that had Spiceworks installed in it and open ports 389 and 636 TCP.
Now spiceworks syncs and authenticates with the AD on Azure and on premise.

that's why I was asking for specific VPN details. A VPN on the servers bypasses the Azure ports. A site to site VPN hits the "outside" of the servers and has ports blocked.