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Deploy OpsWorks to RHEL 7

Amazon Web Services offers OpsWorks as an orchestration tool for Chef. It works with built-in modules, community Chef cookbooks as well as private repositories. In this tutorial I’ll attempt to bring an existing Linux server under OpsWorks’ realm so can manage it with Chef later on.   After logging into the AWS console navigate to
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WordPress engine installation on RHEL 7 running in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon have a good write up on how to install WordPress on Amazon Linux AMIs however I couldn’t find much on how to get it working with Red Hat. I wondered if it was any different so got on with it and found it was pretty much identical. Given the prerequisites have all been completed
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AWS LAMP stack install on Red Hat 7.4

In preparation of a webserver and attached backend database migration I have started working on building an AWS base image for this purpose. I chose RHEL 7.4 (Maipo) as it is Free Tier eligible on AWS.  No hefty bills from the current host – Yay! As the expected load won’t be too high a micro
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