Extend a root volume in the Aws

To extend a root volume in the Aws we first need to take a snap shot of the correct volume and the create a new volume of the needed size from the snapshot. Checking the size of the Current partition. We can see that the current size is 10Gb.

First find the correct instance ID



Check the volume section and find out which all volume are attached to the Correct instance. Check and note the volume instance and find the mount path as we need to mount the new volume to same mount path.    

  Select the Correct Volume and create a snapshot of that Volume. Right Click and select the option to create a snapshot.



Enter the snapshot name and description to create a snapshot.



Snapshot Created.



    Now select the snap shot option in the right menu and choose the correct snapshot which needs to be extended and Right click to create the new volume.

  

Select the Needed Size , type of storage etc

    

Once the Volume in created you can see it in the Volume Panel in available model.

   

Stop the instance in which the Volume is mounted

  

  Select the Volume panel  and Unmount the  initial Volume which is of small size by right click the old volume.

 

Once the volume ins unmounted both the Volumes will be in available state. Now right click on the new volume and attach it into the instance.

  

  Enter the instance to which the volume should be added and also the device path which we have save before.

 

Make sure you enter the device path correctly as we have noted down before.  




Once mounted make sure that the instance ID, Volume ID and device path are correct.

  

Once its all set start the instance and check the size. In some cases we need to run resize2fs to make the size of the volume extent.

    

In windows you can resize it from the disk management option.      

AWS IAM- Identity and Access Management

An AWS account has full permission to perform all actions on the vaults in the account. However, the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users don't have any permission by default.

IAM helps us to securely control access to Amazon Web Services and your account resources. With IAM, you can create multiple IAM users under the umbrella of your AWS account.

Every user you create in the IAM system starts with no permissions. In other words, by default, users can do nothing. Permission is a general term we use to mean the ability to perform an action against a resource, unless you explicitly grant a user permissions, that user cannot perform any of these actions. You grant permission to a user with a policy. A policy is a document that formally states one or more permissions.

IAM Users

An IAM user is an entity that you create in AWS that provides a way to interact with AWS. A primary use for IAM users is to give people you work with identities that they can use to sign in to the AWS Management Console and to make requests to AWS services.

AWS IAM GROUP.

A group is a collection of IAM users. Groups let you specify permissions for a collection of users, which can make it easier to manage the permissions for those users. For example, you could have a group called Admins and give that group the types of permissions that administrators typically need. Any user in that group automatically has the permissions that are assigned to the group. If a new user joins your organization and should have administrator privileges, you can assign the appropriate permissions by adding the user to that group. Similarly, if a person changes jobs in your organization, instead of editing that user's permissions, you can remove him or her from the old group and add him or her to the new group.



 

Creating a Group with needed Privileges.

Entering the Group Name



Selecting Permissions

Aws provides a set of custom permission templates which we can use. The custom template provided by the Aws covers all the services in the AWS.



We can also generate Custom Policies with the help of Policy Generator



First select the service of which we need to create Policies.



 

Select the permission’s we need to add into the Policies



The Amazon Resource Name  : This gives the API details about the service ,region, resource account ect.

 

Arn format

==========

arn:aws:service:region:account:resource

arn:aws:service:region:account:resourcetype/resource

arn:aws:service:region:account:resourcetype:resource

 

More details can be found at

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-arns-and-namespaces.html



Once the ARN is added we can Add Statement so that we can see the rule’s added.



 

Now we will be able to see the policy codes which if needed we can use for create custom Policies.



Creating the Group



 

Creating the User



Keep the Access Key ID and Secret Key safe because this is the last time you will see it in AWS. AWS will not save them for you. But you can create as many keys you need.



 

Adding the User to Group

Right click on the needed user to get more options.



Select the required Group



Once the group is added we need to give the user a password



Assign the needed Password



 

The Group and password are set for the User.



 

 

 

Once the User is set we can set the IAM URL alias



Give the needed Alias



 

The URL is set.



 

Now you can use the URL to access the IAM login portal.

 

Cgroups--Part 2 sample examples and commands

 

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/

Mounting all the subsystems in the system
for i in `lssubsys -am`; do mkdir -p /cgroup/$i ; mount -t cgroup -o $i $i /cgroup/$i ;done
blkio — this subsystem sets limits on input/output access to and from block devices such as physical drives (disk, solid state, USB, etc.).
cpu — this subsystem uses the scheduler to provide cgroup tasks access to the CPU.
cpuacct — this subsystem generates automatic reports on CPU resources used by tasks in a cgroup
memory — this subsystem sets limits on memory use by tasks in a cgroup, and generates automatic reports on memory resources used by those tasks.
Define two cgroups that can be used to assign tasks to run on different sets of CPU cores.
mount -t cgroup -o cpu cpu /cgroup/cpu
mount -t cgroup -o memory memory /cgroup/memory
mount -t cgroup -o blkio blkio /cgroup/blkio

cgcreate -g blkio:high
cgcreate -g blkio:low
cgcreate -g cpu:high
cgcreate -g cpu:low
cgcreate -g memory:high
cgcreate -g memory:low

cgset -r blkio.weight=1000 high
cgset -r blkio.weight=500 low
cgset -r memory.swappiness=30 high
cgset -r memory.swappiness=60 low
cgset -r cpu.shares=4096 high
cgset -r cpu.shares=2048 low
Smaple configuration's ..we can edit the /etc/cgconfig.conf to make our own groups

Controlling CPU Cores on which process need to run

mount {
cpuset = /cgroup/coregrp;
}

group locores {
cpuset {
cpuset.mems="0";
# Run tasks on cores 0 through 3
cpuset.cpus="0-3";
}
}

group hicores {
cpuset {
cpuset.mems="0";
# Run tasks on cores 4 through 7
cpuset.cpus="4-7";
}
}
Controlling CPU and Memory Usage

# High priority group
group hipri {
cpu {
# Set the relative share of CPU resources equal to 75%
cpu.shares="750";
}
cpuset {
# No alternate memory nodes if the system is not NUMA
cpuset.mems="0";
# Make all CPU cores available to tasks
cpuset.cpus="0-7";
}
memory {
# Allocate at most 2 GB of memory to tasks
memory.limit_in_bytes="2G";
# Allocate at most 4 GB of memory+swap to tasks
memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes="4G";
# Apply a soft limit of 1 GB to tasks
memory.soft_limit_in_bytes="1G";
}
}

# Low priority group
group lopri {
cpu {
# Set the relative share of CPU resources equal to 25%
cpu.shares="250";
}
cpuset {
# No alternate memory nodes if the system is not NUMA
cpuset.mems="0";
# Make only cores 0 and 1 available to tasks
cpuset.cpus="0,1";
}
memory {
# Allocate at most 1 GB of memory to tasks
memory.limit_in_bytes="1G";
# Allocate at most 2 GB of memory+swap to tasks
memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes="2G";
# Apply a soft limit of 512 MB to tasks
memory.soft_limit_in_bytes="512M";
}
}

Throttling I/O Bandwidth

Define a cgroup that limits the I/O bandwidth to 50MB/s when reading from /dev/sda1.

mount {
blkio = /cgroup/iolimit;
}

group iocap1 {
blkio {
# Limit reads from /dev/sda1 to 50 MB/s
blkio.throttle.read_bps_device="8:1 52428800";
}
}
Define a cgroup that limits the number of read transactions to 100 per second when reading from /dev/sdd.

mount {
blkio = /cgroup/iolimit;
}

group iocap2 {
blkio {
# Limit read tps from /dev/sdd to 100 per second
blkio.throttle.read_iops_device="8:48 100";
}
}

Define two cgroups with different shares of I/O access to /dev/sdb .
mount {
blkio = /cgroup/iolimit;
}

# Low access share group
group iolo {
blkio {
# Set the share of I/O access by /dev/sdb to 25%
blkio.weight_device="8:16 250";
}
}

# High access share group
group iohi {
blkio {
# Set the share of I/O access by /dev/sdb to 75%
blkio.weight_device="8:16 750";
}
}
ruining the application in the corresponding group

cgexec -g cpu,memory:group2 httpd
cgexec -g blkio:iohi httpd

 

Cgroup installation and configuration. Part 1

Installing Cgroups.
yum install libcgroup

starting Cgroup rule creator
/etc/init.d/cgconfig start

Checking the subsystem which are mounted in the kernel

lssubsys -am

ns
perf_event
net_prio
cpuset /cgroup/cpuset
cpu /cgroup/cpu
cpuacct /cgroup/cpuacct
memory /cgroup/memory
devices /cgroup/devices
freezer /cgroup/freezer
net_cls /cgroup/net_cls
blkio /cgroup/blkio
Basic subsystems are

cpuset assigns individual CPUs and memory nodes to cgroup tasks
cpu schedules CPU access (for example, according to relative shares, as in Figure 1, or for real-time processes)
cpuacct reports total CPU time used.
memory reports or limits memory use.
devices grants or denies access to devices.
freezer suspends or resumes tasks.
net_cls tags outgoing network packets with an identifier.
blkio reports or controls I/O bandwidth for block devices.

 

Checking which all subsystem are mounted using thereown filesystem
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]# ls -al /cgroup/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root 4096 May 8 07:38 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 25 root root 4096 May 8 07:27 ..
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 0 May 8 08:31 blkio
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 May 8 08:31 cpu
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 May 8 08:31 cpuacct
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 May 8 08:31 cpuset
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 May 8 08:31 devices
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 May 8 08:31 freezer
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 May 8 08:31 memory
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 May 8 08:31 net_cls
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]#

if its not mounted manually mount it.

here following are not mounted so we can mount it.
ns
perf_event
net_prio

# mkdir /cgroup/ns
# ll /cgroup/ns/
total 0
# mount -t cgroup -o ns ns /cgroup/ns
# ll /cgroup/ns/
total 0
--w--w--w-. 1 root root 0 May 8 08:48 cgroup.event_control
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 08:48 cgroup.procs
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 08:48 notify_on_release
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 08:48 release_agent
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 08:48 tasks

Creating Cgroups under blkio for settting the different IO rate

[root@ip-192-168-1-129 cgroup]# cgcreate -g blkio:high_io
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 cgroup]# cgcreate -g blkio:low_io
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 cgroup]# cgcreate -g blkio:avg_io

Cgroup are created
==================
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 cgroup]# ll /cgroup/blkio/|grep drwx
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 May 8 09:39 avg_io
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 May 8 09:38 high_io
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 May 8 09:39 low_io
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 cgroup]#
Files inside are created automatically

[root@ip-192-168-1-129 cgroup]# ll /cgroup/blkio/avg_io/
total 0
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.io_merged
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.io_queued
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.io_service_bytes
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.io_serviced
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.io_service_time
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.io_wait_time
--w--w----. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.reset_stats
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.sectors
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.throttle.io_service_bytes
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.throttle.io_serviced
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.throttle.read_bps_device
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.throttle.read_iops_device
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.throttle.write_bps_device
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.throttle.write_iops_device
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.time
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.weight
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 blkio.weight_device
--w--w----. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 cgroup.event_control
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 cgroup.procs
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 notify_on_release
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 0 May 8 09:39 tasks
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 cgroup]#

Getting Current weight-age of the sub system
cgget -r blkio.weight high_io

Setting required weight-age for the sub system
cgset -r blkio.weight=1000 high_io

Assign processes to a cgroup.

Using Pid of process
cgclassify -g blkio:high_io 1407

This has the same effect as putting PID 1410 into the tasks file:

echo 1410 >> /cgroup/blkio/high_io/tasks

Any process subsequently launched in the shell is automatically assigned to the shell's cgroup.

Alternatively, the cgexec command can launch a process in the specified cgroup:
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]# cgexec -g blkio:high_io httpd
httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for ip-192-168-1-129.ec2.internal
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]#
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]#
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]# pidof httpd
1521 1520 1519 1518 1517 1516 1515 1514 1513
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]# cat /cgroup/blkio/high_io/tasks
1513
1514
1515
1516
1517
1518
1519
1520
1521
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]#

For services that have a configuration file in /etc/sysconfig, you can edit the configuration file to allocate the service to a cgroup automatically. For example, add this line to /etc/sysconfig/httpd:

CGROUP_DAEMON="blkio:high_io"

Then start the service to automatically execute the processes in the specified cgroup:

===============
The changes made above will be erased on server reboot so to make the rules permanent we need to add the rule in the configuration.

 

Capturing Parameters
Up to this point, everything I've done on the command line won't persist across reboots. Once I've set up hierarchies, attached cgroups, and defined parameters the way I want them, I can capture an existing configuration with cgsnapshot:
# cgsnapshot -s > cgconfig-example.conf

now check the configuration at /etc/cgconfig.conf and do needed changes as of cgconfig-example.conf .
To clear all the setting we can use
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]# cgclear
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]# lscgroup
cgroups can't be listed: Cgroup is not mounted
[root@ip-192-168-1-129 ~]#

Tcp Wrapper's Security

TCP wrapper based access List Rules can be included in the two files
/etc/hosts.allow and
/etc/hosts.deny .

Work precedence:

/etc/hosts.allow-
if allow will not check 2
if not found then go to 2
/etc/hosts.deny .
if not found allow access.

Points to remember

You can have only one rule per service in hosts.allow and hosts.deny file.
Any changes to hosts.allow and hosts.deny file takes immediate effect.
The last line in the files hosts.allow and hosts.deny must be a new line character. Or else the rule will fail.

ALL : 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0
sshd : ALL EXCEPT 192.168.0.15
in.telnetd : 192.168.5.5 : deny
in.telnetd : 192.168.5.6 : allow

CpuLimit -- Limiting User's resource Usage

sudo yum install cpulimit
If it’s not possible in your distro then it’s extremely easy to compile it:

cd /usr/src/
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/opsengine/cpulimit/tarball/master -O cpulimit.tar
tar -xvf cpulimit.tar
cd opsengine-cpulimit-9df7758
make
ln -s src/cpulimit /usr/sbin/cpulimit

/usr/sbin/cpulimit --limit=10 /bin/gzip test.tar
Using cpulimit you can also allocate CPU limit to already running processes, e.g. below command will allocate 20% CPU limit to process with PID 2342:

/usr/sbin/cpulimit -p 2342 -l 20
It’s possible to specify process by its executable file instead of PID:

/usr/sbin/cpulimit -P /usr/sbin/nginx -l 30

S3cmd : Used to copy files to s3 bucket from server. AWS

S3cmd : AWS command used to copy/Sync content to S3 bucket

s3cmd can be installed from epel repo or by manually compiling the code.

While installing from epel there could be dependency issue for the python.
while using epel repo we need the python version 2.4 in the server if you are having another version of python its better to go with the manual installation.

## RHEL/CentOS 6 32-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

## RHEL/CentOS 6 64-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

yum install s3cmd

For manual installation Download the tar file from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/files/s3cmd/

get the tar file of the needed version .
make sure you have a python version > than 2.4 installed in the server.

untar the file using tar zxvf or zjvf as per the need and use python to run the installation script

python setup.py install

..

Configuring/Reconfiguring the s3cmd command

s3cmd --configure

Enter new values or accept defaults in brackets with Enter.
Refer to user manual for detailed description of all options.

Access key and Secret key are your identifiers for Amazon S3
Access Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Secret Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Encryption password is used to protect your files from reading
by unauthorized persons while in transfer to S3
Encryption password: xxxxxxxxxx
Path to GPG program [/usr/bin/gpg]:

When using secure HTTPS protocol all communication with Amazon S3
servers is protected from 3rd party eavesdropping. This method is
slower than plain HTTP and can't be used if you're behind a proxy
Use HTTPS protocol [No]: Yes

New settings:
Access Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Secret Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Encryption password: xxxxxxxxxx
Path to GPG program: /usr/bin/gpg
Use HTTPS protocol: True
HTTP Proxy server name:
HTTP Proxy server port: 0

Test access with supplied credentials? [Y/n] Y
Please wait, attempting to list all buckets...
Success. Your access key and secret key worked fine :-)

Now verifying that encryption works...
Success. Encryption and decryption worked fine :-)

Save settings? [y/N] y
Configuration saved to '/root/.s3cfg'

 

# s3cmd mb s3://test
Bucket 's3://test/' created

# s3cmd ls s3://test/

Upload a file
# s3cmd put file.txt s3://test/

Upload Similar files
# s3cmd put *.txt s3://test/

Uploading complete Directory
# s3cmd put -r upload-dir s3://test/
Upload files in a directory
# s3cmd put -r upload-dir/ s3://test/

Get a file
# s3cmd get s3://test/file.txt

Removing file from s3 bucket
# s3cmd del s3://test/file.txt
File s3://test/file.txt deleted

Removing directory from s3 bucket
# s3cmd del s3://test/backup
File s3://test/backup deleted
Sync direcotry .
# s3cmd sync ./back s3://test/back

attributes that can be used with Sync
--delete-removed :-remove files that are removed from the local directory .
--skip-existing :-Don't sync the files already synced.

—exclude / —include — standard shell-style wildcards, enclose them into apostrophes to avoid their expansion by the shell. For example --exclude 'x*.jpg' will match x12345.jpg but not abcdef.jpg.
—rexclude / —rinclude — regular expression version of the above. Much more powerful way to create match patterns. I realise most users have no clue about RegExps, which is sad. Anyway, if you’re one of them and can get by with shell style wildcards just use —exclude/—include and don’t worry about —rexclude/—rinclude. Or read some tutorial on RegExps, such a knowledge will come handy one day, I promise ;-)
—exclude-from / —rexclude-from / —(r)include-from — Instead of having to supply all the patterns on the command line, write them into a file and pass that file’s name as a parameter to one of these options. For instance --exclude '*.jpg' --exclude '*.gif' is the same as --