Sometimes EB fails to deploy and times out with a generic error:
Unsuccessful command execution on instance id(s) 'i-********'. Aborting the operation.
As of yet there is no clean way to get out of this, but here are the top 3 ways that we have got it to work - depending on your needs...
Topics: EC2, AWS, Deployment, EB (Elastic Beanstalk), Elasticbenastalk
OSX quick look is great, but it only supports a limited number of text files.
Topics: OSX
We often get an issue with our MEAN vagrant dev environments where a previously working server will fail to connect to the mongo db the next time a developer does vagrant up
We use PhantomJS to auto generate images of user generated content. All was fine, until we entered the Asian markets.
It was not the usual black squares issue that you can get with Phantom, it just had spaces where the Korean characters should have been.
The font itself was loading fine, as Latin characters were in the correct type face.
After following lots of posts about installing font support packs on linux, and non of them working, I finally got it running on Centos with groupinstall for yum
sudo yum groupinstall "Korean Support" "Chinese Support" "Japanese Support"
Topics: PhantomJS, AWS, yum, CentOS, EB (Elastic Beanstalk), Linux
Out the box iTerm2 and oh-my-zsh make using the terminal a whole lot easier, but there is one thing that has always annoyed me - not being to move the cursor to the prev / next words whilst entering long commands, until now...
Had a very odd issue with CSS files being loaded, but the css not being applied (and any @imports not loading either).
As part of our deployment process, we include the short git SHA as a build number against our SemVer version number.
We wanted this available in our application UI to help identify running versions. Easy I thought, Beanstalk sets this as the Version Label when deploying, so we should be able to access that from the environment vars in PHP.
Unfortunately not, this is one of the many EB values you cant easily get to. After a lot of failed attempts, here is how we managed it as a one-liner in the .ebextensions
Topics: PHP, EC2, AWS, Deployment, EB (Elastic Beanstalk), Apache
Back in Feb I wrote about how to compile phantomJS 2.0.0 for linux, using centOS as the build machine. However, the resulting bin files are not portable across all linux distros, hence why the official binaries aren't out yet.
If you need to run phantomJS on one of the AWS machine images, here is how we compiled it on AWS.
Had this little annoying error with docker the other day.
Topics: Deployment, Docker
We were upgrading our automated screen shot process of our core product, moving it over to phantomJS 2.0 as it uses a much newer QT WebKit engine, that produces far more accurate results.
However, there is currently no download for the linux build, so we decided to build it ourselves. After quite a few failed attempts, (using various bash scripts and trying the deploy vm that is in the repo), this is how we finally got it working If you want to cut to the chase, you can grab the 64bit bin file here...
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