Suppose I deploy an Azure role supplying a service package and a service configuration. Then I change the configuration one or more times without redeploying the role.
Is it possible to get the initial configuration?
The RoleEnvironment API only reflects the current values.
You could handle the RoleEnvironment.Changing event and keep track of the configuration changes from there.
You can change the service configuration in a number of ways:
Using the management portal
Click on the deployment (it must in Ready state!)
Click on "Configure" - edit the configuration.
Using the Manamgement REST API's Change Deployment Configuration method.
If you go for second option, you can either create your own classes or use, for example this NuGet package.
However I don't think (I'm not aware of a method) you can get the initial service configuration once it has been changed.
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I have a puppet module that is deploying a standalone nifi instance. It's all working and it will deploy the application with an initial admin user etc via authorizers.conf.
But in order to configure additional users and groups there is a long process of creating policies and adding users and groups via the gui. I want to automate some of this in my puppet module.
It would be good to be able to automatically create an admin group which is already assigned to a load of policies.
It doesn't seem like this is possible though as the best-practice is to only edit authorizers.xml and allow that to create the resulting authorisations.xml and users.xml, and there is no setting within authorizers.xml to create initial groups or initial policies.
My only idea at the moment is to use something like the nipyapi python module to create users and groups via the api during the initial install.
Or perhaps ignoring the authorisers.xml and just deploy a pre-configured authorizations.xml and users.xml.
Am I missing any other simple or better options?
According to Jelastic documentation it is possible to export the Environment configuration and download it so it can be restored in another provider
However I have tried with 2 Jelastic providers and they both have disabled the option for exporting private data.
So exporting/download/upload/import of environment is not possible.
i.e. I was expecting to have a process similar to CPanel backup/restore tool
In fact, another view for the deployment process gives a possibility to get rid of the model of handling the data or configuration on the platform. Try to think a bit differently and using CI/CD approach. The Jelastic provides a platform where something you created, locate on somewhere you're elaborating(VCS or GIT as an example) and based on or depends on the specific stack, already pre-configured like a layer and can be installed(copied) over Jelastic. Don't need to handle the data somewhere in the cloud because you have it locally(means within any VCS) and doing the changes there. Then just do a 'pull' procedure(manually or automatically) on that deployment(test, production, staging) environment you're expecting.
Moreover, you can expect any environments type like a code and perform it creating before deploying the data.
Please, find the articles being described each case:
Deployment Guide
Jelastic Packaging Standard for CI/CD Automation
In case you would like to handle the databases' backups, check this article:
Scheduling Database Backups
Additional FTP add-on can make the copies more easily for each instance:
FTP/FTPS Support in Jelastic
On Jelastic, I created a node for building an application (maven), there are several identical environments (NGINX + Spring Boot), the difference is in binding to its database and configured SSL.
The task is to ensure that after building the application (* .jar), deploy at the same time go to these several environments, how to implement it?
When editing a project, it is possible to specify only one environment, multi-selection is not provided.
it`s allowed to specify just one environment
We suggest creating a few environments using one Repository branch, and run updates by API https://docs.jelastic.com/api/#!/api/environment.Vcs-method-Update pushing whole code to VCS.
It's possible to use CloudScripting technology for attaching custom logic to onAfterBuildProject event and deploying the project to additional environments after build is complete. Please check this JPS as an example of the code syntax. Most likely you will need to use DeployProject API method.
I've deployed a ServiceNow developer instance running version 'London' and can't see an option to enable SecurityOperations plugin. However I had a previous instance and I'm sure it was a straight forward operation from the instance manager.
Does anyone know how to do this or whats changed?
Thanks
The Security Operations modules can now be directly activated from the plugin list of your instance. You can navigate to System Definitions -> Plugins and then search for Security to get your required plugin.
I'm struggling with finding a good way not to check my secret passwords into my web.config.production type files (the ones that get transformed when Web Deploy publish is done). my workflow is that my team checks in and out of github and then when we are ready to do a production deployment, we have a custom web.config.deployment configuration that has all our real passwords in it. The problem is that all developers see those passwords.
I'm looking for suggestions for how to not have to put those passwords into our github repository with as a little friction as possible. That is, now, we have to rdp into our web server and manually change those passwords. Azure let's you set them in the azure portal, but we are not using azure.
One option is to store these app settings\connection strings in IIS. Then they will be applied to the web.config at start up and only members with access to your IIS administration can access them.
See these post:
http://forum.winhost.com/threads/setup-the-connection-string-in-web-config.7592/
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753224(v=ws.10).aspx
app settings – Specify name/value pairs that will be loaded by your web application on start up. For .NET sites, these settings will be injected into your .NET configuration AppSettings at runtime, overriding existing settings.
connection strings – View connection strings for linked resources. For .NET sites, these connection strings will be injected into your .NET configuration connectionStrings settings at runtime, overriding existing entries where the key equals the linked database name.