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If the Terraform apply execution times out during the RDS instance creation, the specified Security Group and Parameter Group is not set in the RDS instance. The solution is to set the timeout in the aws_db_instance resource. When a multi-az RDS instance is launched from a snapshot, the process can take more than 55 minutes. The default …
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The SQL database servers use the available memory for caching to speed up the database operation. If we do not restrict the SQL database server memory usage, the operating system will not have enough memory to run. This setting is also necessary for an AWS RDS instance, otherwise, you will get the alert ALARM FreeableMemory <=… MB In AWS …
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When you execute kitchen converge to launch an EC2 instance in AWS with Chef Test Kitchen, you get the error message: >>>>> ——Exception——- >>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed >>>>>> Message: 1 actions failed. >>>>>> Failed to complete #create action: [undefined method `version’ for nil:NilClass] on … >>>>>> ———————- >>>>>> Please see .kitchen/logs/kitchen.log for more details >>>>>> Also …
When you execute kitchen list and the driver in your .kitchen file is “ec2“, the following error message appears: >>>> ——Exception——- >>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ClientError >>>>>> Message: Could not load the ‘ec2’ driver from the load path. Please ensure that your driver is installed as a gem or included in your Gemfile if using Bundler. >>>>>> ———————- …
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When you launch a new EC2 instance in the AWS cloud from the command line or with other cloud management platforms, you may get the error message: CloudExceptions::CloudException – 400: VPCIdNotSpecified: No default VPC for this user (RequestID: …) This can happen when the specified Subnet Id is not a valid subnet in the selected …
When a process on a server instance needs access to an AWS account, the user who will execute the AWS CLI commands needs to be able to automatically authenticate in AWS. For automatic AWS authentication, the AWS CLI creates two files in the .aws directory: config and credentials. The location of this directory depends on the …
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If you just start to work with Terraform Enterprise, you need to create a Terraform environment. Preparation GitHub account To access GitHub from Terraform Enterprise, create a GitHub team and account with admin access to the GitHub repository that will store the Terraform scripts. Create a GitHub team who will have admin access to the Terraform …
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Create a new organization In your web browser navigate to https://atlas.hashicorp.com/help/organizations, On the left menu bar under Organizations click Create, In the middle of the screen click the new organization page link, Enter the email address and user name for the organization owner and click the Create organization button.
Search Terms: see Searching in Splunk Commands: tell Splunk what we want to do with the search result Charts Computing statistics Formatting Functions: explain how we want to chart, compute and evaluate the results Arguments: variables we apply to the functions Clauses: grouping and definition of results Separator Use pipes (|) to separate the components …
When you add cookbooks as dependencies with the “depends” statement to the metadata.rb file of your Chef cookbook, to be able to test your cookbooks in Chef Test Kitchen, you also have to specify the location of those cookbooks in the Berksfile file. For all the cookbooks that are available on the Chef Supermarket, one line source …
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