[lug] Ubuntu repository access on private AWS VPC?

[Bear Giles]

I've seen references to this but haven't found actual instructions (except
for S3 and Dynamo DB)....

I have some AWS EC2 instances that have a public interface. I have a few
that don't have a public interface at all - they're only accessible from
the first systems.

Think webapp server (public) and database (private). Or even reverse proxy
(public), webapp server (private), database (super-private).

The problem is getting Ubuntu packages onto the private instances. I've
been manually copying a few extra packages, e.g., for the database, but
that's not sustainable when I want to apply bug fixes, etc. Supposedly
there's a way to set up your private VPC so it can see extremely selective
external resources without setting up a full gateway but I haven't found
any details.

I am aware of 'endpoints', but only for S3 and DynamoDB.

The Ubuntu repository is a HTTP server (
http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/) or could be an FTP server.

It looks like another approach is using 'apt-transport-s3' to point to an
S3 bucket containing the packages, but I don't think that's what people
were referring to. I don't know that for sure though.

Bear
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/pipermail/lug/attachments/20180327/8a26a6f8/attachment.html>