Announcements

• How to get access to the new EY Portal
• Announcement: Badgeville integration into Zendesk
• Stable V5 Now GA
• Pending Engine Yard Sale
• 2017.12.29 - Platform Maintenance
• 5th Generation Instances launched and Instance Price Increase

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Engine Yard Platform Release Notes

• ★ Engine Yard Platform Release Notes for September 28th, 2022
• Engine Yard Platorm Release Notes for November 22th, 2018
• Engine Yard Platform Release Notes for November 29th, 2018
• Engine Yard Platorm Release Notes for December 6th, 2018
• Engine Yard Platorm Release Notes for December 13th, 2018
• Engine Yard Platform Release Notes for January 24th, 2019

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Engine Yard Kontainers Release Notes

• Engine Yard Kontainers 1.8 Release Notes - April 6th 2021

Engine Yard Kontainers CLI Release Notes

• ★ 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 Kontainers CLI 1.0.3 Release Notes - May 13th 2021

Engine Yard Stack Release Notes

• ★ Engine Yard Release Notes for October 4th, 2021 (Stack V5)
• ★ Engine Yard Release Notes for July 19th, 2022 (Stack V6)
• ★ Engine Yard Release Notes for September 9th 2022 (Stack stable-v7-1.0.8)
• Engine Yard Release Updates November 2014
• Engine Yard Release Updates December 2014
• Engine Yard Release Notes - January 2015

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Engine Yard Known Issues

• ★ Deployment errors due to GitHub changes
• Adding a utility instance to an existing solo instance results in an incorrect memcached address
• Redis Upgrade Does Not Automatically Restart Server
• Upsizing from 32 bit to 64 bit instances
• PHP 5.4 is the version available by default: if you need PHP 5.3
• Dashboard prompting to 'Repair Firewall'

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Security Updates

• ★ March 2019 RubyGems Security Advisories
• ★ MDS Vulnerabilities Response
• ★ MSS and SACK Panic
• January 2nd, 2013 (updated): SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails (CVE-2012-5664)
• January 8th, 2013: Multiple vulnerabilities in parameter parsing in Action Pack (CVE-2013-0156)
• January 14, 2013: Security vulnerabilities: httparty, extlib, crack, nori: Update these gems immediately

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Get Started

• Video Tutorial: Set up an Account and Deploy an Application
• Tutorial: How to Deploy the ToDo Application on a Trial Account
• Sign up for a Full Engine Yard Account
• Set Up Your Application and Environment
• Set up Your Local Environment for Ruby on Rails
• Host Your Code on GitHub

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Introduction

• Engine Yard Cloud Introduced
• Engine Yard Technology Stack Update Policies
• Stacks compatibility matrix
• Platform Architecture
• Engine Yard Glossary
• Contact Engine Yard Support

Manage your Account

• 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
• Upgrade a Free Trial Account to a Full Account

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Manage your Environment

• ★ Auto Scaling of Environments
• Create an Environment
• Use Cloud Storage with Engine Yard
• Encrypted EBS
• New Relic Infrastructure Agent
• Using Amazon Application Load Balancers

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Deploy your Application

• ★ Deploy a Webpacker app on Engine Yard Cloud
• ★ Engine Yard Cloud Support for Ruby with jemalloc
• 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

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Manage Your Instances

• Sizing Your Instances
• EY Instance Access Controls and Logging
• Modifying Instance Volumes
• Restarting an instance
• Troubleshooting Instance Issues
• Amazon Instance Type Support

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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

• Environment Alerts
• Filesystem Health Checks
• HAProxy Health Check
• Set up Application Monitoring
• Monitor Application Uptime
• View Performance Graphs

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Troubleshooting

• ★ Troubleshoot Deployment
• Bundler Version Issue “uninitialized contant Gem::SilentUI (NameError)”
• Diagnose Errors
• Passenger + nginx on Engine Yard's stack V5 (16.06)
• Site is Down: Diagnostic Checklist
• Termination Failed error when shutting down an instance

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Migrate Applications

• Move Your Application to a Different Region
• Migrate to Engine Yard Cloud
• Upgrade Steps Template

Customize

• 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
• Obtain and Install SSL Certificates for Applications

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Early Access

• Engine Yard Early Access
• Do You Have Ideas, Questions, or Suggestions for Early Access Features?
• Use Instance Update on Engine Yard
• Use MySQL 5.1 with Engine Yard Cloud

Instance Provisioning API Early Access

• Use the Instance Provisioning API on Engine Yard Cloud
• Get Environment Data
• Add an Instance
• Remove an Instance
• Get Instance Provisioning Status

Upgrades and Tools

• ★ Working with /mnt size on EY Cloud
• Upgrade Guide
• Use R3 Instances
• Use T2 Instances
• About Amazon VPC on Engine Yard
• Use C4 Instances

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Engine Yard Ubuntu 20.20 (Stack v7)

• EY Stack v7 Preview
• Differences in the v7 stack from our stack older versions

Engine Yard Ubuntu 19.05 (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

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

NodeJS

• Upgrade NodeJS on the stable-v4 stack

Billing/Finance/Legal/Compliance

• 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?
• My company wants to cancel its services with Engine Yard. How do we do that?
• When do you charge my credit card?
• My credit card expired or was declined and the payment failed. How do I fix it to prevent my account from being suspended?
• How can I estimate my monthly bill?

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Add-ons

• Extend Engine Yard Cloud with Partner Add-on Services
• Monitor Applications with the New Relic Add-on
• Monitor Applications with the AppFirst Add-on
• Best Practices for Using a Custom MongoDB Environment with Engine Yard Cloud

Engine Yard Kontainers User Guide

• Free Trial and Credit Offer
• 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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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

• ★ Keep Up With Engine Yard Release Updates, Stack, Community, Documentation ...
• Filing Support Tickets
• Viewing your support tickets