Moving VMs to New Cloud Site

[OwenIyoha_52c6]

Eko-Konnect is about to make its cloud platform that is hosting in collaboration with WACREN available. We wold like some guidance on the best way to migrate the research application VMs created from the Lagos hackfest and currently hosted by sci-gaia at University of Catania to the cloud platform in Lagos.

[MarioTorrisi_f8dd]

Hi @OwenIyoha_52c6,

the VMs currently hosted at University of Catania are the following:

1. aceprd
2. agriservicomm
3. d4pr
4. ibis
5. lasuoar
6. mipar (2 VMs)
   a. portal
   b. a virtual machine where mipar script are executed
7. plantisc2
8. Futuregateway

For some of these services I'll give you a clone of the VM, that you can import in your cloud infrastructure, for the others you should some new VMs based on the specifications I'll give you later.

In particular, in the next days, I'll give you the VM clones for

1. lasuoar
2. mipar (2 VMs)
3. Futuregateway

To prepare these clones, I need to know which image format your cloud infrastructure supports (QCOW2, VMDK, OVA...).

Regarding the others machines, you should prepare 5 VMs with a Debian based OS (on our infrastructure these machines are based on Ubuntu 14.04) with at least:

• 2 VCPU
• RAM: 2 GB
• HD: 20 GB

All VMs should have:

• public IP
• http and https ports open
• ssh accessible only with ssh-key, you can find my ssh public keys at: https://github.com/mtorrisi.keys

Sorry for the long answer, I tried to be as clear as possible, even though I know I wasn't ...

Cheers.
Mario

[AzeezZakariyau_0c13]

Hi @MarioTorrisi_f8dd,

I am Azeez Zakariyau, one of the Administrators from Eko-konnect working on the cloud platform. The platform runs on google ganeti cluster and as far as we know it supports OVA and VMDK. We can do with VMDK.

We will begin to prepare the five VMs according to your specifications.

Thank You

Azeez

[MarioTorrisi_f8dd]

Thank you @AzeezZakariyau_0c13,

can you give me your ssh public key? So I can put it in the VM clones.
Regards.

[MarioTorrisi_f8dd]

Dear @AzeezZakariyau_0c13,

in the meantime I started to create some of the clones, you can find them at https://151.97.41.84, or, through sftp, to access the folder, please contact me in private, I'll give you the credentials.

@OwenIyoha_52c6 or @Omo.Oaiya, sorry, can you add Azeez on sci-gaia slack channel? So I can chat with him.

Thanks.

[OwenIyoha_52c6]

Hi @MarioTorrisi_f8dd,

Thanks for your responses and efforts. I will get Azeez onto the slack platform shortly. We are all a bit busy for the next week with ICT-39 project deadlines so don't worry if are not very responsive until next week.

Thanks,

[AzeezZakariyau_0c13]

Dear @MarioTorrisi_f8dd,

My key can be found at https://github.com/z3ln0.keys

Thank you

[MarioTorrisi_f8dd]

I've just added your key in the sftp server that hosts the clones, so you can download them also with an sftp client, like Filezilla as example. The parameters to connect to the sftp server are:

• host: sftp://151.97.41.84
• username: azeez
• port: 2222

Regards.

[AzeezZakariyau_0c13]

Dear @MarioTorrisi_f8dd,

I have just tried to access the server using sftp and this is the message I have been getting.

n0@debian:~$ sftp -vv -oPort=2222 azeez@151.97.41.84
OpenSSH_6.7p1 Debian-5+deb8u3, OpenSSL 1.0.1t 3 May 2016
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/z3ln0/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to 151.97.41.84 [151.97.41.84] port 2222.
debug1: connect to address 151.97.41.84 port 2222: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 151.97.41.84 port 2222: Connection refused
Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

Thank you

Azeez

[MarioTorrisi_f8dd]

Hello @AzeezZakariyau_0c13,

let me check. I'll come back to you in a while, this is my skype account: hits831, add me to your contacts.

Ciao

[Omo.Oaiya]

Scan says port 2222 not available. Please fix so we proceed with this. Also add my keys too - https://github.com/kodion.keys

[MarioTorrisi_f8dd]

Firewall issue, sorry for that...
@Omo.Oaiya, I also added your key:

• host: sftp://151.97.41.84
• username: kodion
• port: 2222

Mario.

[Omo.Oaiya]

Thanks @MarioTorrisi_f8dd I can get in but cannot access or download using the clones symlink. I get "Couldn't canonicalize: No such file or directory"

[MarioTorrisi_f8dd]

Sorry @Omo.Oaiya, try from here: https://151.97.41.84, I'll give the password trough slack, I'm online there.

[AzeezZakariyau_0c13]

Hi @MarioTorrisi_f8dd,

I have downloaded the VM clones of lasuoar and mipar. The instances are now running in our cluster. The servers still retain their previous login credentials. Can I please have the login details?

We can chat on Skype at your convenience.

Thanks

Azeez

[MarioTorrisi_f8dd]

Hello @AzeezZakariyau_0c13,

Both images should have SSH access enabled, can you give me the IP address?
I'll put your public key and you'll get access.

I'm online on skype.

Cheers.

[brucellino]

Maybe it would be easier to do this in Slack ? @AzeezZakariyau_0c13 would you like an invite ? We've got a channel just for this ...

I would also like to maybe have a chat about how these services are being deployed, and suggest some means for automating and monitoring them better.

[AzeezZakariyau_0c13]

Hi @brucellino,

Yes I will like an invite to slack please.

Thanks

[brucellino]

Hi @AzeezZakariyau_0c13 - great, see you in #fedcloud. By the way, I deleted a previous post of yours, removing the IP addresses. It's not great practice to leak such information onto the internet, since it can lead to some social engineering by people trying to attack the site.

If you need to send such information in the discussion forum, it's best to use the private messaging system of discourse

[AzeezZakariyau_0c13]

Hi @brucellino ,

You are right, thank you for the tip off. I am about to sign up on to slack and join the channel.

cheers

Azeez