{"id":26282,"date":"2016-07-24T23:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T21:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26282"},"modified":"2016-07-25T07:28:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T05:28:49","slug":"how-to-recover-an-unreachable-linux-instance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/24\/how-to-recover-an-unreachable-linux-instance\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Recover an Unreachable EC2 Linux Instance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"volume\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a tutorial that will come handy one day, in the moment of panic –\u00a0How to Recover an Unreachable Linux Instance<\/a>. It has plenty of screenshots and shows each step in detail.<\/p>\n

TL;DR version:<\/p>\n

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  1. Start a new instance (or pick one from the existing ones).<\/li>\n
  2. Stop the broken instance.<\/li>\n
  3. Detach the volume from the broken instance.<\/li>\n
  4. Attach the volume to the new\/existing instance as additional disk.<\/li>\n
  5. Troubleshoot and fix the problem.<\/li>\n
  6. Detach the volume from the new\/existing instance.<\/li>\n
  7. Attach the volume to the broken instance.<\/li>\n
  8. Start the new instance.<\/li>\n
  9. Get rid of the useless new instance, if you didn’t reuse the existing one for the troubleshooting and fixing process.<\/li>\n
  10. ???<\/li>\n
  11. PROFIT!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    Here is a tutorial that will come handy one day, in the moment of panic –\u00a0How to Recover an Unreachable Linux Instance. It has plenty of screenshots and shows each step in detail. TL;DR version: Start a new instance (or pick one from the existing ones). Stop the broken instance. Detach the volume from the … Continue reading How to Recover an Unreachable EC2 Linux Instance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How to Recover an Unreachable Linux Instance #AWS #SysAdmin #DevOps","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62],"tags":[3270,3333],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-26282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-amazon-aws","tag-amazon-ec2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26931,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/21\/using-ansible-to-bootstrap-an-amazon-ec2-instance\/","url_meta":{"origin":26282,"position":0},"title":"Using Ansible to bootstrap an Amazon EC2 instance","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This article - \"Using Ansible to Bootstrap My Work Environment Part 4\" is pure gold for anyone trying to figure out all the moving parts needed to automate the provisioning and configuration of the Amazon EC2 instance with Ansible. 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