I'm playing around with lambda functions and I was wondering if there was a way to execute a a script on my windows pc from the lambda function. I'm assuming I need to send a request to my windows pc somehow to execute the script, but I'm not an expert here. Any pointers would be awesome, sorry if it's a dumb question.
Thanks
Here is how it is possible:
Your PC with NAT Exposed public IP and port to connect and run the script by a webserver or any other service.
From Lambda you connect to your machine with public ip and run the desired action needed.
If you don't have a fixed IP on your server you can use public dns service to create a dns entry that keeps constantly updating your ip address to that service, this way if your IP changes, you will not have any issues connecting to your machine.
Hope it helps.
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My problem is that I want to run an application on an AWS EC2 instance on port 3000. I then want to be able to access it from the internet using http:/PUBLIC_IP:3000. The problem is that when I am running the application on the EC2 instance, it runs on the private IP - and therefore I cant access it from the internet. How would I make sure that the app will run on the public ip, or how would I set it up, so I can access the application over the internet?
I tried to find a solution online, but some hours later I find myself in here.
Thank you for your help. It was very helpful in debugging the error. It turned out that the security group of the EC2 instance was not allowing traffic on port 3000 so I had to add that - and then it worked.
I furthermore had trouble putting it behind a Load Balancer. The solution to that was that it was a webpack application and in .webpack there is a configuration file where you can add e.g., allowedHosts: [.amazonaws.com].
Ansbile can be used to update a machine via ssh, and in order to establish such connection, you need an accessible IP address.
How to use it to update a fleet of distributed machines on different networks (consumers) which don't have a public address?
One solution I was thinking of, is to reverse the procedure, have Ansible configured on the client machine, that connects each day to the server, read a file to see if it has a new update for it and loads that update.
I find this not straightforward, is there another way?
ansible-pull is exacly what you are looking for.
I'm just looking for advice, I can do most of my own research, but I'm not sure where to start. Here's the situation:
I want to be able to deploy 3 vms that have 2 nic's a piece. 1 nic will have a standard IP that AWS provides. The second nic will have a pre-configured internal static IP. Let's say, 192.168.0.100, 101, and 102. That way each vm can talk to each other automatically without needing to know what the external IP is. The purpose of this is so that I can have a small cluster already configured and I won't have to do a lot of work every time I deploy the cluster.
I want this to be repeatable. Let's say I want this for a classroom. Each student has the identical set of clustered VMs. All they need to do is power them on and start working.
So, I think I can do this with Terreform. I don't know if AWS has it's own tooling that can do this also. If it has, I haven't been able to find it yet.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
In general, every VM gets a private IP, if the VM is public you can assign a public IP which makes the VM accessible from external and also provides internet access, this is be done by source/destination NAT.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html
As long as they are part of you VPC CIDR and available you can specify the IP addresses on instance launch. This can be done via AWS Console, API, CLI, CloudFormation and also with Terraform. The AWS native tools for doing it at scale / repeatable is CloudFormation or maybe also a script that runs AWS CLI commands would work.
https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/opsworks/create-instance.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-ec2-network-interface-privateipspec.html
I want to create a TFTP server on my computer, and I found a program named TFTPD32 that can help me. But when I try to bind my local IP (192.168.X.X) to a public one as I see in a tutorial, it doesn't show as a possible choice in that program.
As far as I know, to make this to work you need to install a server OS like Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 Ultimate is a client one.
Is there a way to configure Windows 7 Ultimate as a public server?
Or maybe I am doing something wrong?
P.S.: I am sorry for my bad English.
If you can get that working in a LAN environment, then the solution is what ElGalivan said - take a look at the NAT table in your router.
Typically you need to do NAT over the UDP port 69 to your sever LAN IP address.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
Tftpd32 can only "bind" to IP addresses available to the Windows OS where Tftpd32 runs.
In the very unusual case that your host is directly attached to a public IP Tftpd32 sure will have that public IP available for binding.
In a more normal case your host will be behind a router/NAT etc then your host will only have private IPs (192.168.x.x) available. In this case you should forward certain IP ports in your router in order to let exterior users reaching your server services.
But please consider; you should never do this with TFTP; TFTP is a protocol not meant for Internet traffic. It is used in the early stages of PXE booting strategies in LANs (Local Area Networks).
Amazon only gives you a certain number of static ip address and the local (private) ips of each EC2 instance can change when the machine is restarted. This makes creating a stable platform where EC2 instances depend on each other ridiculously hard to use as far as I can tell.
I've search online a lot about various solutions and so far have found nothing reasonable outside of assigning an elastic ip address on ever EC2 even if its not public facing. Does anyone have any other good ideas that is actually easy to execute on?
Thanks!
See the AWS team's response to question Static local IP:
The internal IP address of EC2 instances is allocated via DHCP. On
instance shutdown, or when the DHCP lease expires, the IP address is
returned to the general EC2 DHCP pool of addresses available for other
instances.
There is no way to guarantee that you will obtain the same DHCP
address across reboots.
Edit: The answer is to use Amazon VPC. There is no downside except a trivial amount of extra setup because now you control the router. It's a world apart from plain old EC2 instance on AWS. It's so necessary in fact that VPC will be enabled for all future AWS setups by default. See this post for more information: http://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1a3n0r/ec2_update_virtual_private_clouds_for_everyone/
The stock answers are:
Use AWS VPC so you have complete control over instance addressing
Use Elastic IPs, which will resolve to the instance's local address (not the public, as you'd expect) when used to communicate between EC2 instances
I stumbled upon third option. There's ec2-ssh by the Instragram folks. It's a python shell script that you install globally and lets you both query the public dns of your ec2 instances by tag name and also ssh in via tag name as well.
The documentation for it is virtually nonexistent. I've written down the steps to install below:
To install ec2-ssh:
sudo yum install python-boto (python wrapper for ec2 api)
git clone https://github.com/Instagram/ec2-ssh
In your ~/.bash_profile set your AWS access key and secret like so:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XYZ123
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XYZ123
cd into the bin folder of the repo, there will be two files:
ec2-host and ec2-ssh
copy them to your /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
Now you can do awesome stuff like:
$ ec2-host ZenWorker
ec2-999-xy-999-99.compute-1.amazonaws.com
and
$ ec2-ssh ZenWorker
Connecting to ec2-999-xy-999-99.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
Note that in your regular shell scripts you can use backticks to call these global tools. I've timed these calls and they take between 0.25 and 0.5 second using an EC2 instance, so that's really the only downside. Perhaps you can live with the delay, or use the fact that public DNS only changes for an instance on reboot to work up a solution.
Note that these two programs are commandline scripts and you don't need any Python knowledge to use them. For PHP fans, or those that also want an easy way to scp files without knowing the changing public DNS, you can checkout ec2dns.
I was in the same situation once. I still dont have the expertise to solve it properly. My ugly solution was to use elb not really for load balancing but just for the endpoint.
But I think a good solution can be obtained by using aws vpc.
Here's another Ruby solution for Updating Route 53 DNS from instance on AWS. You shouldn't reference raw 3rd party system IP addresses in your applications or server configurations.
you can change Ip Address using Elastic Ip:
You Can Do Using C# Code:
var associateRequest = new AssociateAddressRequest
{
PublicIp = your Elastic Ip,
InstanceId = Your Instance Id Which You Assign
};
amazonEc2Client.AssociateAddress(associateRequest);
after That DeAssociate It.
var disAssociateRequest = new isassociateAddressRequest(publicIp.ElasticIpAddress1);
AmazonEc2Client.DisassociateAddress(your Elastic Ip);
your Public Ip Will Change