Posted by jeevanullas »
3 Comments »Hello internet,
I am trying to connect my Linux machine to Amazon VPC using end to end IPSec tunnel. I have set all the required VPC objects on Amazon side and now plan to set my Linux Laptop as a VPN gateway. But the only doubt I have is that my Laptop is behind NAT. Though I have opened and re-directed the necessary ports on my NAT device I am not sure if this thing is going to work.
Please let me know if this setup can work. I am trying to follow the following guide
http://openfoo.org/blog/amazon_vpc_with_linux.html
From what I understand so far in order to make this guide work for my setup I need to do some extra configuration. I have also found out that IPSec supports tunnels behind NAT devices but I am not sure if Amazon VPC will support such configuration.
Any help in this matter is highly appreciated.
Posted by jeevanullas »
4 Comments »In my last article I showed on how to create your own AMI for EC2. The article basically demonstrated the whole process been done manually by executing commands. In this article I would like to cover Boxgrinder which reduces the manual effort completely and helps you get your own AMI registered on EC2 and in few minutes.
First thing is that we need to run boxgrinder on CentOS if we would like to build a CentOS AMI and on Fedora if we would like to build a Fedora AMI. The good thing about boxgrinder is that it uses the latest pvgrub kernel images provided by Amazon which basically lets you boot into your own kernel. So gone are the days when we had to use Amazon EC2 kernel. Thanks to Marek Goldmann for making this possible in boxgrinder 0.5
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Posted by jeevanullas »
4 Comments »It’s been long since I posted on this blog. This time I have come up with this new post which takes you through on how to go about creating your own Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon EC2. Note that there are several publicly available AMI’s on Amazon which one can use for various purposes but sometimes we require to have a AMI of our own which has all the require software / configuration to meet our daily requirements. That is time we need to know how to create our own AMI.
I would like to thank Phil Chen for his excellent post here http://www.philchen.com/2009/02/14/how-to-create-an-amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-ec2-machine-image-ami which I followed and have mentioned below with some extra addition and some modification.
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