GO HERE Google Cloud Compute Engine PIAF 3.6.5

[Bryan Hiller]

I have tried to install piaf on a google cloud compute engine instance following these instructions:

sed -i 's|no|yes|' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
ifup eth0
yum -y install wget nano

cd /root
wget http://pbxinaflash.com/piaf3-install.tar.gz
tar zxvf piaf3-install.tar.gz
./piaf3-install

Everything seems to install completely, but after the server reboots I am no longer able to SSH into the machine. Is this something with IPtables, does the SSH port change ?

thanks,
Bryan

 

[wardmundy]

PIAF requires root access via SSH. Are you sure you have those permissions??

 

[Bryan Hiller]

That could be it, I can switch to root once logged into the instance, but I am not sure how to ssh into the instance as root. I will look into it, as I am sure it can be done. thank you.

 

[mbellot]

That could be it, I can switch to root once logged into the instance, but I am not sure how to ssh into the instance as root. I will look into it, as I am sure it can be done. thank you.

ssh [email protected]
or
ssh server.yourdomain -l root

 

[wardmundy]

Bryan Hiller This post explains how to continue the install once you have switched to root. No need to SSH in as root actually.

 

[Bryan Hiller]

Thought I would update this, I was unable to log back in as root after running the PIAF install script. the script runs successfully and when the computer restarts I can no longer ssh via gcutil or putty. I have tried with ssh keys with password authentication but to no avail. All of these worked prior to running the script. So I kept the server at amazon as I see you are still supporting it (thanks by the way!). I appreciate your help.

 

[krzykat]

So I kept the server at amazon as I see you are still supporting it (thanks by the way!).

Out of curiosity, what is your monthly nut from Amazon for running PIAF on there?

 

[billsimon]

Google Compute Engine holds some appeal over AWS in that they give an automatic discount on long-running instances (meaning 75% or 100% of a month) without having to go through the Reserved Instance game that AWS uses. Google wasn't really competing very hard with AWS in terms of features a couple years ago, but now they are getting closer with feature set and are very competitive on price.

Making a PBX more "cloudy" takes it to the next level in terms of scalability, reliability, and flexibility. By "cloudy" I mean not just an instance of PIAF running on a single VM but really utilizing the virtualized network, storage, compute, and database. Both AWS and Google can provide the blocks for this now, and Google will probably do it cheaper.

All this is to say, I'm interested in seeing continued progress in building on GCE.

 

[magna.vis]

Out of curiosity, what is your monthly nut from Amazon for running PIAF on there?

I run a small test PIAF VM for free. If you're not on AWS, you should check them out. http://aws.amazon.com/free/

Glacier storage is an awesome backup target as well. Super cheap.