s3cmd on Solaris10

Ever wondered if you can use S3 with Solaris 10? This post will walk you through how you can install s3cmd on Solaris 10 to interact with AWS s3. 1. We will need to install pkgutil which will allow us to use the opencsw repository to install wget, python27, py_pip, gnupg /bin/bash pkgadd -d http://get.opencsw.org/now…

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OpenShift 4 Developer Preview

OCP 4.0 is not out yet but you have the chance to get your hands dirty by going to the following URL https://try.openshift.com. Log in with your redhat account and you should be good to go. You will notice that we are using a new installer called openshift-installer. The installer uses terraform to build the…

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CloudForms in AWS part 3

This will be the last part of the blog series but probably the most interesting one. When you launch a smartstate analysis you will see the following in you evm log files. [—-] I, [2018-03-11T16:12:10.941498 #3004:4f7130] INFO — : MIQ(ManageIQ::Providers::Amazon::CloudManager::Vm#raw_scan) NAME [Scan from Vm vmtosmartstate] SCAN [nil] [NilClass] [—-] I, [2018-03-11T16:12:11.068516 #3004:4f7130] INFO — : Job…

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CloudForms in AWS part 2

This part of the CloudForms in AWS blog series will walk you through how to make sure that CloudForms reaches its full potential in AWS. IMPORTANT: If you want SmartState analysis to work you need to register your AWS account with the cloud access program. Use the link below to enable cloud access: https://engage.redhat.com/forms/cloud-access-registration Once…

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CloudForms AWS IAM policies

To enable Cloudforms to connect to the AWS provider you need to following policies: AmazonEC2FullAccess AWSConfigUserAccess IAMReadOnlyAccess IAMUserSSHKeys AWSCloudFormationReadOnlyAccess As well as two custom policies CFMESNS { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: [ “sns:*” ], “Resource”: “arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:${AWS-ACCT_ID}:AWSConfig_topic” } ] } CFMESQS { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: [ “sqs:*”…

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