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Secure, flexible and scalable Amazon EC2 instance preseeding

Alon Swartz - Mon, 2011/01/03 - 10:43

I'd like to introduce Joe. He is a good looking, experienced sys-admin and like all good sysadmins, he has more stuff to do than time to do it.

Joe wants to get up and running on Amazon EC2 with a Wordpress installation, and chooses to do so with a pre-configured appliance. These are the steps Joe performs:

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development
django
hub

Tweaking Django exceptions with custom middleware

Alon Swartz - Mon, 2010/12/13 - 17:26

When settings.DEBUG is set to False, exception tracebacks will be sent to settings.ADMINS. To make it simpler to track down how and why the exception was raised, it's beneficial to know which user caused the exception.

It's quite simple to do this using some custom middleware. In the Hub, we include the associated users email address in the exception with the following:

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ec2
cloud
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debian
ubuntu

Finding the closest APT package archive using GeoIP and indexing

Alon Swartz - Mon, 2010/10/04 - 14:26 - 4 comments

In preparation for TurnKey's upcoming release based on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS, we are knocking off todo list items. One of them is code-named auto-apt-archive. As you can guess from its name, the objective is to configure the closest APT package archive mirror, automatically, without user intervention. It does this by leveraging a new GeoIP service provided by the TurnKey Hub.

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news
s3
backup
cloud
hub
ubuntu
tklbam
amazon

TKLBAM: a new kind of smart backup/restore system that just works

Liraz Siri - Wed, 2010/09/08 - 16:32 - 44 comments

Drum roll please...

Today, I'm proud to officially unveil TKLBAM (AKA TurnKey Linux Backup and Migration): the easiest, most powerful system-level backup anyone has ever seen. Skeptical? I would be too. But if you read all the way through you'll see I'm not exaggerating and I have the screencast to prove it. Aha!

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s3
django
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cloud
hub
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amazon
storage

Finding the closest data center using GeoIP and indexing

Alon Swartz - Mon, 2010/08/16 - 08:08 - 7 comments

We are about to release the TurnKey Linux Backup and Migration (TKLBAM) mechanism, which boasts to be the simplest way, ever, to backup a TurnKey appliance across all deployments (VM, bare-metal, Amazon EC2, etc.), as well as provide the ability to restore a backup anywhere, essentially appliance migration or upgrade.

Note: We'll be posting more details really soon - In this post I just want to share an interesting issue we solved recently.

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Launching TurnKey Hub into private beta: cloud deployment simplified

Alon Swartz - Mon, 2010/05/31 - 16:28 - 5 comments

Towards the end of last year we decided it was time to start working on an idea we've been toying with for a while. Mapping out the feature set was fun, and a lot of the current and future features are based on feedback we received from you guys and gals, as well as many related questions and comments from around the net.

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