Announcements

• Engine Yard pricing changes - March 2024
• Memos for Credits Applied to an Account
• End of Engineering for EYK and next steps for EYC
• Changes on invoicing and payment processing
• End of Engineering for EYK
• Ceasing of Support and Functionality for Stable-v1 and Stable-v2 Stacks

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Engine Yard Platform Release Notes

• Engine Yard Platform Release Notes for December 26th, 2022
• Engine Yard Platform Release Notes for November 2nd, 2022
• Engine Yard Platform Release Notes for October 10th, 2022
• Engine Yard Platform Release Notes for September 28th, 2022
• Engine Yard Platform Release Notes for June 22nd, 2022
• Engine Yard Platform Release Notes for June 8th, 2022

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Engine Yard Kontainers Release Notes

• Engine Yard Kontainers 1.10.1 Release Notes - February 6th 2023
• Engine Yard Kontainers 1.9.0 Release Notes - June 30th 2022
• Engine Yard Kontainers 1.8.3 Release Notes - April 20th 2022
• Engine Yard Kontainers 1.8.2 Release Notes - December 12th 2021
• Engine Yard Kontainers 1.8.1 Release Notes - July 6th 2021
• Engine Yard Kontainers 1.8 Release Notes - April 6th 2021

Engine Yard Kontainers CLI Release Notes

• Engine Yard Kontainers CLI 1.0.3 Release Notes - May 13th 2021
• Engine Yard Kontainers CLI 1.0.4 Release Notes - Aug 19th 2021
• Engine Yard Kontainers CLI 1.0.5 Release Notes - Nov 11th 2021

Engine Yard Stack Release Notes

• Engine Yard Release Notes for March 19th 2023 (Stack stable-v7-1.0.15)
• Engine Yard Release Notes for March 13th, 2023 (Stack v6)
• Engine Yard Release Notes for February 21st 2023 (Stack stable-v7-1.0.14)
• Engine Yard Release Notes for January 30th 2023 (Stack stable-v7-1.0.13)
• Engine Yard Release Notes for December 28th 2022 (Stack stable-v7-1.0.12)
• Engine Yard Release Notes for December 8th 2022 (Stack stable-v7-1.0.11)

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Engine Yard Known Issues

• Let's Encrypt X3 root certificate expiration
• Recent deployment issues via Bundler version-locking
• AddTrust External CA Root expiration causing SSL certificate verification failures
• Deployment errors due to GitHub changes
• Warning message DNS SPOOFING DETECTED when SSHing into instances

Engine Yard Cloud Troubleshooting Guide

• Troubleshooting a Ruby Version Mismatch
• Troubleshooting PostgreSQL Service Start-Up Failures: Potential Permissions and Configuration Issues
• Troubleshooting MySQL Database Issues After Cloud Stack v7 Update
• Troubleshooting Deployment Failure Due to Gemfile and Gemfile.lock Mismatch
• Enabling Amazon RDS as a Database Provider in Engine Yard
• Understanding and Resolving Frequent Logging of Requests in Passenger Log File

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Getting Started with EngineYard

• Password and Access Management in EngineYard
• Unicorn vs. Puma vs. Passenger: Comparison of each App Server
• Engine Yard Cloud Introduced
• Engine Yard Technology Stack Update Policies
• Stacks compatibility matrix
• Video Tutorial: Set up an Account and Deploy an Application

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Manage your Account

• Engine Yard Early Access
• Managing Multiple Logins
• Canceling your account
• About Accounts
• Before You Begin: Set Up Your AWS Account And User
• Securing your account with Two-Factor Authentication

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Manage your Environment

• Understanding Risks and Limitations of Adding Exceptions to Your Firewall
• Create an Environment
• Use Cloud Storage with Engine Yard
• Encrypted EBS
• New Relic Infrastructure Agent
• Using Amazon Application Load Balancers

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Manage Your Instances

• Creating a DB-only environment in Engine Yard
• Using Memcached with Ruby on Engine Yard Cloud
• Sizing Your Instances
• EY Instance Access Controls and Logging
• Modifying Instance Volumes
• Restarting an instance

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Deploy your Application

• ey-core usage in Engine Yard Cloud
• How Your Ruby Code Is Deployed on Engine Yard Cloud
• Use Non-Ruby Deploy Hooks
• Using 'yarn' to manage NodeJS modules for assets compilation
• Using the nokogumbo gem on EYCloud
• Deploy a Webpacker app on Engine Yard Cloud

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Manage your Database

• About Database Replica Promotion
• Access Your Database Remotely Through an SSH Tunnel
• Backup the Database
• Can I rename my database?
• Checking for Connections
• Copy database tables to/from different environments

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Manage your IP Addresses

• About IP Addresses on Engine Yard Cloud
• Manage IP Addresses
• Delete IP Addresses
• Set up Domains and DNS
• Use Application Slave IP Addresses
• Migrate IP Addresses

Work with SSH (Secure Shells)

• Member Key Pair Management
• Creating SSH Keys
• Add an SSH key to an Environment
• Connect to Your Instance Using SSH
• Adding SSH Keys to Engine Yard Cloud

Monitor your Application

• Introducing Weatherman: Your Engine Yard AI Assistant for Instance and Environment Alerts
• Filesystem Health Checks
• HAProxy Health Check
• Set up Application Monitoring
• Monitor Application Uptime
• View Performance Graphs

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Troubleshooting

• The repository 'https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bionic-pgdg Release' does not have a Release file
• Troubleshooting Access Issues to Webpage Due to PostgreSQL Change in v6
• Troubleshooting Multiple Deployment Issues
• Troubleshooting Redis Installation and Operation Issues on Stack v7
• Troubleshooting Application Deployment Errors Caused by `ey-core` Gem
• Troubleshooting Upgrade Issues from v5 to v7

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PHP

• Use Composer for PHP
• Composer major upgrade fix
• Set Up a Local PHP Environment
• Deploying & Scaling Magento Community Edition 1.8.x on Engine Yard
• PHP Performance I: Everything You Need to Know About OpCode Caches

Upgrades

• Upgrade Guide
• Instance and Stack EOL
• Use R3 Instances
• Use T2 Instances
• Use C4 Instances
• Use M4 Instances

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Customizations

• Blocking Subdomains via Nginx Configuration
• Customize Your Environment with Chef Recipes
• Custom Chef Recipes — Examples & Best Practices
• HTTP/2 is coming to Engine Yard
• Checking If Chef Recipe is Enabled
• Chef Recipes V4 vs V5/V6/V7

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Migrate Applications

• Migrating instances to v7 Stack
• Upgrade to the Latest Ruby Version
• Move Your Application to a Different Region
• Migrate to Engine Yard Cloud
• Upgrade Steps Template

Engine Yard Ubuntu 20.04 (Stack v7)

• EY Stack v7 Preview
• Differences in the v7 stack from our stack older versions
• Engine Yard Ubuntu 20.04 Technology Stack

Engine Yard Ubuntu 19.05 (Stack V6)

• Setting up Ruby 3 on EYC Stack v6
• Engine Yard Ubuntu 19.05 Technology Stack
• RubyGems versions on Stack v6
• Differences in the V6 stack from our stack older versions
• Default system shell under Stack V6
• Ruby 3 on Stack v6

Engine Yard Gentoo 16.06 (Stack V5)

• Engine Yard Gentoo 16.06 Technology Stack
• Custom Chef
• Migrating Custom Chef Recipes from v4 to v5
• Migrate From Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 (Stable-V4) To Gentoo 2016 (Stable-V5) With Custom Chef
• Differences in the V5 stack from our stack older versions
• Docker on stable-v5

Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 (Stack V4)

• Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 Technology Stack
• Use Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11
• Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11 FAQs

Engine Yard Gentoo 2009 (Stack V2)

• Engine Yard Gentoo 2009 Technology Stack

Billing & Compliance

• Understanding Your EngineYard Billing and Pricing
• How to Reduce Your Monthly Bill with Engine Yard
• Understanding Charges on Invoice After Account Cancellation
• Sister companies working with Engine Yard
• We can't pay by credit card. Can you invoice my company?
• My Accounting Department requires some additional information on invoices. How can I obtain/ view a detailed breakdown of my invoices?

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Engine Yard Kontainers User Guide

• Giving other users access to apps
• Problems running console commands when connected through 'eyk ps:console'
• How to open a console session to a running container within a pod
• Moving an application to a new cluster
• Setting the default browser when using EYK CLI on WSL
• Intermittent "Error 502 Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors following deployment

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Advanced Topics

• Increasing Memory Allocation for a Specific Process in EYK
• Permission denied (publickey)
• Verify running processes

Quick Start Guide

• Getting Started with Engine Yard Kontainers
• Running Background Jobs in EYK
• Download the Kontainers CLI Tool
• The Dockerfile and Procfile: Defining the Image and Behavior of your Application
• Using a Database with your Kontainers Application

Help Desk Basics

• Getting an environment or instance analysis from EY Weatherman
• How to Unleash the power of ATLAS + Weatherman: our new AI chat Support duo
• Keep Up With Engine Yard Release Updates, Stack, Community, Documentation ...
• Viewing your support tickets