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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

By : Manoj Hirway
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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

By: Manoj Hirway

Overview of this book

This book introduces you to the hybrid cloud platform, and focuses on the AWS public cloud and OpenStack private cloud platforms. It provides a deep dive into the AWS and OpenStack cloud platform services that are essential for developing hybrid cloud applications. You will learn to develop applications on AWS and OpenStack platforms with ease by leveraging various cloud services and taking advantage of PaaS. The book provides you with the ability to leverage the ?exibility of choosing a cloud platform for migrating your existing resources to the cloud, as well as developing hybrid cloud applications that can migrate virtual machine instances from AWS to OpenStack and vice versa. You will also be able to build and test cloud applications without worrying about the system that your development environment supports. The book also provides an in-depth understanding of the best practices that are followed across the industry for developing cloud applications, as well as for adapting the hybrid cloud platform. Lastly, it also sheds light on various troubleshooting techniques for OpenStack and AWS cloud platform services that are consumed by hybrid cloud applications. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of the hybrid cloud platform and will be able to develop robust, efficient, modular, scalable, and ?exible cloud applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Troubleshooting OpenVPN issues


As we already discussed, a hybrid cloud is created by connecting the private cloud and the public cloud using an encrypted network link. One of the most commonly used open source software packages for establishing a VPN connection is OpenVPN. Since this is widely used, let's discuss some common troubleshooting techniques when working with OpenVPN.

OpenVPN log files

A typical problem that administrators face is that they are unable to connect to the OpenVPN access server. For example, when the VPN client attempts to establish a connection to an OpenVPN access server, it is disconnected immediately. In such cases, it is helpful to look at the log files of the OpenVPN access server. The most important log files to look at are as follows:

  • /var/log/openvpnas.log
  • /var/log/openvpnas.node.log (for failover setups)

The messages in these log files provide a hint to the root cause of the problem, which can then be fixed by the administrator. It is better to add some additional...