by nClouds | Sep 10, 2013 | Announcements, Migration, Uncategorized
In this post, I am going to be creating a demo Rails stack using Chef, Vagrant and Berkshelf. Chef is an open source configuration management system, it allows you to treat your infrastructure as a code. Vagrant allows you to create Virtualbox machines, they also have...
by nClouds | Jun 13, 2013 | Announcements, Migration, MSP
While working on RDS database, several times we observe that RDS slowdowns due to high CPU load which can cause due to lots of queries hitting to DB and run at the same time. surely you can setup a monitoring system which can send you alerts related to CPU load. But...
by nClouds | Jun 11, 2013 | Announcements, Migration, MSP
I tried to kill query on AWS RDS today and I got an error saying “ERROR 1095 (HY000): You are not owner of thread” , even though I was using the admin account for RDS. As the error suggests, in order to kill it, you need to be the process owner. You can get the info...
by nClouds | Jun 4, 2013 | Announcements, Migration, MSP
With the new version of Chef we have more options and more features and an even better knife status command, which brings us to the discussion at hand which is how to alert for stale nodes on Chef using Nagios:- The knife status command is used to display a brief...
