Nathan Pearce npearce

Create the Grafana Dashboard Container for BigStats on AWS

Updated: August 21, 2018

NOTE: This setup is used as an exporter destination for BigStats: https://npearce.github.io

Create the Instance

On the AWS Console:

In 'Instances', click 'Luanch Instance'.
Select 'Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM), SSD Volume Type'

Create the Apache Kafka Container for BigStats on AWS

Updated: August 21, 2018

NOTE: This setup is used as an exporter destination for BigStats: https://npearce.github.io

Create the Instance

On the AWS Console:

In 'Instances', click 'Luanch Instance'.
Select 'Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM), SSD Volume Type'

About

The F5 iControl LX Framework enables engineers to create custom Nodejs control-plane actions/workflows for the F5 BIG-IP hardware and software appliances.

Put the RPM on the BIG-IP

Copy the RPM using scp (or some SCP capabe GUI tool).

SCP instructions

UPDATE (March 2020, thanks @ic): I don't know the exact AMI version but yum install docker now works on the latest Amazon Linux 2. The instructions below may still be relevant depending on the vintage AMI you are using.

Amazon changed the install in Linux 2. One no-longer using 'yum' See: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/release-notes/

Docker CE Install

sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker
sudo service docker start

Install Openwhisk on docker in AWS

Get docker and docker-compose running on Amazon Linux 2: https://gist.github.com/npearce/6f3c7826c7499587f00957fee62f8ee9
git clone https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-devtools.git
cd incubator-openwhisk-devtools/docker-compose
make quick-start

This works for my Dell Ultra Wide monitor.

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2

Credit to Chris Hoffman: https://www.howtogeek.com/358596/how-to-fix-blurry-fonts-on-macos-mojave-with-subpixel-antialiasing/

Useful git commands

This gist is for collecting git commands I don't use often enough to remember, but probably waste too much time trying to find when I need them.

	/**
	* Apply the new, or modified, service definition to the BIG-IP
	* @param {Object} service_def retireved from GitHub repo
	*
	* @returns {Object} AS3's declaration processing results
	*/
	MyWorker.prototype.applyServiceDefinition = function (service_def) {

	return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {

	//NOTE: the source permissions need to be set appropriately, also.
	// npm i --save targz

	const targz = require('targz')

	targz.compress({
	src: '/tmp/mydirectory',
	dest: 'output/filename.tgz',
	tar: {
	dmode: 0775, // Directories: rwxrwxr-x

	// using `type -d` and `type -f` to isolate

	// Change all directories to 775, and ignore files
	find /home/user -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

	// Change all files to 664, and ignore directories
	find /home/user -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;