chef/puppet solo on scalr

[otherjohn]

Hi all,

I am trying to look at the best way of going about this with the Angel package (10 servers, no scalr chef ability) and I don't want to use chef-hosted.

I would like to use chef or puppet to automatically setup my servers as they load up and I am looking for suggestions.

1. modify current roles (like app role) and add chef or puppet that fires off onhostup and does the rest.

2. create from base role everything from scratch (custom app role from base) that fires off from scratch. This seems like too much work.

3. create a server/client setup with chef or puppet and dedicate one of my 10 servers as the chef/puppet master server. In this method, I will have the master server configure the clients on them starting up, but I am not sure how to effectively communicate back and forth on a newly created server.

4. something completely different suggested by one of you!

What I don't want is to loose any of scalr's functionality like VHost setup.

Any suggestions?

john

[Srinivasan S]

If you are signing up for a plan, I guess you can also ask Scalr support for help in addition to the community.

Custom role is not possible or too involved. I also had a similar req and started on this route but was advised to not do it. So I have taken both app and base roles and done addnl customization and use them.

Since my customization needs were not much I actually wrote a couple of shell scripts and start them off when the instance boots :) in addition to doing other stuff the script also downloads a couple of jars from s3 and deploys it.

Srini

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[John Hamman]

We already have the Angel plan and I currently have a few shell scripts setting up the site.

But as we get more complex, I am realizing the need for something like puppet/chef.

We currently have our sites setup in the following setup:

1 LB

2 App (scalable to 5)

Apache2 multiple sites with glusterFS replication layer on each 

1 Memcache

2 db

I am currently considering switching to nginx to run our websites instead of apache. 

The setup of glusterFS is the challenging one for me. I am having a difficult time figuring out how to install gluster on each scaled up host and attache the correct web folders to it.

My thought is puppet/chef will make my life easier.

John