This document is compatible with LTS lineage assets. For more information, see ServerTemplate Lineage and Methodology.
Notice: There is a maintenance release for this LTS release. See the ServerTemplates below for more information on their maintenance revisions.
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Release Date: August 29th, 2013
Release Time: Close of business (Pacific Standard Time)
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The following new ServerTemplates have been added to the RightScale MultiCloud Marketplace. Be sure to read the documentation, follow best practice principles, and thoroughly test any new functionality before making any changes to your production deployment.
Customers should make sure the instance types they choose to use meet these minimum requirements. For servers running SQL the memory requirements are in addition to the OS memory requirements.
Minimum Hardware Requirements for 64-bit Windows operating systems and SQL server from Microsoft:
In v13.5 ServerTemplates, a new option called "unmanaged" has been added to the sys_firewall cookbook. If this option is chosen, no changes will be made to iptables service so the cloud provider can manage the firewall rules. An example for this option would be RackConnect where the cloud provider sets up the firewall rules and RightScale does not manage the firewall rules.
Support for CentOS and Red Hat was added to the ruby::install_1_9 recipe so that it would install the Ruby 1.9 packages from the rightscale-epel mirror.
Secondary backups can now be scheduled to run on all the database servers with this merge: https://github.com/rightscale/rights...ooks/pull/134/
With the v13.5 release, we have tuned the following parameters in the HAProxy ServerTemplate:
HAProxy
Apache
Corresponding to the global maxconn value in HAProxy config, the following "worker mpm" parameters are tuned for Apache:
All default values mentioned above are set in the attributes file in their respective cookbooks. NOTE: They don't exist as inputs on the ServerTemplate.
As of v13.5, the Firewall Rule Port input will accept comma-separated firewall ports. The sys_firewall::setup_rule can now be used to enable/disable rule on all specified ports. Note that if there are any invalid rules in this input, none of the rules will be setup.
As of v13.5, anonymous users present in the database are removed during the installation so that database access requires a valid username and password. By default, MySQL creates anonymous users to allow users to access the database without a username and password. For more information, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/...rivileges.html
Added support to the v13.5 ServerTemplates for using public IPs to set DNS records. A new recipe named sys_dns::do_set_public is in sys_dns cookbook which allows the usage of public IP to set the DNS A records.
The submodule feature is enabled in v13.5. The repo::do_update_code recipe automatically downloads submodules when using the Git provider.
Canonical's "Ubuntu Hardy (8.04LTS)" distribution is EOL. Packages for Ubuntu 8.04 are no longer available in the RightScale mirrors past the 9/10/2013 "freeze" date. It is recommended that customer upgrade to the latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release to continue to receive the latest bug fixes and security updates, but those who still wish to use the 8.04 images will have to freeze repositories to 9/10/2013 in order for Hardy instances to boot.
The following ServerTemplates and MultiCloud Images can be found and imported in the RightScale MultiCloud Marketplace. Navigate there from either:
Description: This ServerTemplate configures a Rails application server with the Apache HTTP Server running Phusion Passenger. It is designed to work in a hybrid cloud setting, and with a CLB, ELB, or Load Balancer ServerTemplate and Database ServerTemplate as part of a three-tier web architecture. It also includes iptables management for clouds that do not have firewall services.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | |||||||||||
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44262
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate configures a combined Tomcat 7 and Apache application server, which uses the mod_jk connector plug-in. It creates an HTTP virtual host (vhost) and forwards requests to the specified application port to serve your web application.
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | |||||||||||
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44264
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate configures a Django application server for Apache using mod_wsgi. It is designed to work in a hybrid cloud setting, and with a CLB, ELB, or Load Balancer ServerTemplate and Database ServerTemplate as part of a three-tier web architecture. It also includes iptables management for clouds that do not have firewall services.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44265
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: Configures a PostgreSQL 9.1 database server. This ServerTemplate provides a high-availability master/slave database configuration that can be used as the backbone for a variety of applications and workloads.
The ServerTemplate supports multiple clouds, using either instance-based storage or attachable volumes. Instance-based snapshot backups are automatically uploaded to your choice of remote object storage (Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files). It also includes iptables management for clouds that do not have firewall services.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | |||||||||||
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44268
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate installs Memcached, which can be used as a caching layer to improve the performance of your cloud-based multi-tier application.
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44271
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate can be used as a central logging destination for servers in your deployment. It can replace the RightScale-based lumberjack solution and could be used to integrate with other 3rd party logging providers.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44272
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate is a starting point for custom ServerTemplate development.
This ServerTemplate uses RightScript technology; for a Chef-based version of this ServerTemplate, see: Base ServerTemplate for Linux
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: http://www.rightscale.com/library/se.../lineage/44252
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate is a starting point for custom ServerTemplate development in Linux.
This ServerTemplate uses Chef; for a RightScript based ServerTemplate, see: Base ServerTemplate for Linux (RSB)
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: http://www.rightscale.com/library/se.../lineage/44177
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: Basic all-in-one LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server designed to work in a hybrid cloud setting. This server takes regular backups of the MySQL 5.1 database and saves them to public cloud storage. Suitable for single-server test, development, and production (non-redundant) purposes.
For the latest version of MySQL, see: LAMP All-In-One with MySQL 5.5
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | |||||||||||
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: http://www.rightscale.com/library/se.../lineage/44288
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: Basic all-in-one LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) ServerTemplate designed to work in a hybrid cloud setting. This ServerTemplate takes regular backups of the MySQL 5.5 database and saves them to public cloud storage. Suitable for single-server test, development, and production (non-redundant) purposes.
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: http://www.rightscale.com/library/se.../lineage/44251
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: Launches a complete LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack on a single server in any of the supported cloud infrastructures. It includes default values for all required inputs so you can launch a server in less than 15 minutes. This ServerTemplate is designed for demonstration purposes only and is not recommended for production use.
If you want to launch a LAMP stack with your own application code and database, please see: LAMP All-In-One with MySQL 5.5
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: http://www.rightscale.com/library/se.../lineage/44253
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate configures an HAProxy load balancer and Apache server. It is designed to work in a hybrid cloud setting, and with application server and database ServerTemplates as part of a three-tier web architecture. It also includes iptables management for clouds that do not have firewall services.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44258
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate configures a PHP application server with Apache. It is designed to work in a hybrid cloud setting, and with a CLB, ELB, or Load Balancer ServerTemplate and Database ServerTemplate as part of a three-tier web architecture. It also includes iptables management for clouds that do not have firewall services.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44259
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate configures a Rails application server with the Apache HTTP Server running Phusion Passenger. It is designed to work in a hybrid cloud setting, and with a CLB, ELB, or Load Balancer ServerTemplate and Database ServerTemplate as part of a three-tier web architecture. It also includes iptables management for clouds that do not have firewall services.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace Next Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44261
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate configures a combined Tomcat 6 and Apache application server, which uses the mod_jk connector plug-in. It creates an HTTP virtual host (vhost) and forwards requests to the specified application port to serve your web application.
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44263
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: Configures a MySQL 5.1 database server. This ServerTemplate provides a high-availability master/slave database configuration that can be used as the backbone for a variety of applications and workloads.
The ServerTemplate supports multiple clouds, using either instance-based storage or attachable volumes. Instance-based snapshot backups are automatically uploaded to your choice of remote object storage (Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, or SoftLayer Object Storage). It also includes iptables management for clouds that do not have firewall services.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace Next Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | |||||||||||
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44266
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate is on the LTS Lineage. For the latest Infinity version, see the Infinity Lineage
For a description of the Infinity and LTS lineages, see ServerTemplate Release Methodology
Configures a MySQL 5.5 database server. This ServerTemplate provides a high-availability master/slave database configuration that can be used as the backbone for a variety of applications and workloads.
The ServerTemplate supports multiple clouds, using either instance-based storage or attachable volumes. Instance-based snapshot backups are automatically uploaded to your choice of remote object storage (Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, or SoftLayer Object Storage). It also includes iptables management for clouds that do not have firewall services.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44267
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate contains several useful recipes to set up and back up storage within a variety of contexts. It is used within other ServerTemplates to support runbook operations like backup and restore of databases.
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace First Gen | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
CentOS | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Ubuntu | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
RHEL 6 | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: https://www.rightscale.com/library/s.../lineage/44269
Known Limitations: RHEL Support for Open Cloud
Notes:
Note: There is a maintenance release for this LTS release. See the latest revision here.
Description: This ServerTemplate configures a Microsoft SQL Server standalone database server or pair of servers in a high-availability (HA) configuration (synchronous mirroring). It supports graceful (no data loss) and forceful (possible data loss) manual failover, with the latter to be used for disaster-recovery situations. This can also be used with our SQL Server Witness ServerTemplate to provide automatic failover. Also included are built-in monitoring and alerts on CPU, memory, and disk.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
Windows 2012/SQL 2012 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||
Windows 2008R2/SQL 2012 | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||||
Windows 2008R2/SQL 2008R2 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: http://www.rightscale.com/library/se.../lineage/44143
Known Limitations: Rackspace Performance Cloud Servers are not supported.
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate configures an IIS (Internet Information Services) web application server. It is designed to work in a hybrid cloud setting and with a CLB, ELB or Load Balancer ServerTemplate and Database ServerTemplate as part of a three-tier web architecture.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
Windows 2012 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||
Windows 2008R2 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: http://www.rightscale.com/library/se.../lineage/44090
Known Limitations:
Notes:
Description: Configures a Microsoft Active Directory server or additional Directory Controllers leveraging Microsoft best practices.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
Windows 2008R2 | √ | √ | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: http://www.rightscale.com/library/se.../lineage/44113
Known Limitations: Rackspace Performance Cloud Servers are not supported.
Notes:
Description: This ServerTemplate is a starting point for custom ServerTemplate development in Windows.
Key Features:
OS and Cloud Support:
Amazon | CloudStack | Datapipe | HP | OpenStack | Rackspace | Rackspace Open Cloud | Rackspace Private | SoftLayer | Windows Azure | ||
Windows 2012 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||||
Windows 2008R2 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
MultiCloud Marketplace Link: http://www.rightscale.com/library/se.../lineage/44065
Known Limitations:
Notes:
RHEL is not supported for Rackspace Open Cloud due to subscription manager issues. It is currently being worked on and will be released as a Maintenance release soon. Please contact support if you have any questions.
Sync for Postgres Database Manager ServerTemplate
If the sync state for the database is changed from its default using the "db_postgres::do_set_slave_sync_mode" recipe, it will get reset after reboot. It is only a known limitation for v13.5 because of the new code change. All prior versions are not affected by this limitation.
5471 There was no docroot (/home/webapps/myapp) created for Apache by default in the v13 ServerTemplates
5566 The internal port for Tomcat was incorrectly set to port 8000
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