Hrmmm... Local proxies on each client may introduce a fair amount of overhead, but may actually work. The only problem with scripting and then calling the right --server option is that it would require a restart of the client to fail the service over to the alternate puppetmaster - it wouldn't happen automatically.
Greg On May 14, 5:53 pm, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Either use a local proxy or load balancer or use a wrapper script that > checks which pm is alive and then execute puppet with the correct > --server option > > Ohad > > On 5/14/09, Greg <greg.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi guys, > > > I have a multi-site setup that I am configuring to manage via Puppet. > > At present > > there is only a single puppetmaster, but I'm about to set up a second > > one at > > another site for redundancy and to speed up requests by keeping the > > configuration > > at the one site. > > > I want to set up Puppet clients to first attempt to connect to the > > puppetmaster > > at their local site and if that fails to try the puppetmaster at the > > alternate site. > > Obviously this requires the puppetmaster configurations to be > > identical - no problem. > > The problem is that I can only set one server name into the > > puppet.conf file, I can't > > specify a list. > > > I know some people have gotten around this (sort of) by using Apache > > and mod_proxy > > to load balance the configuration - that's not what I'm after, its not > > a load issue, its a > > redundancy issue I'm trying to solve. All that putting in Apache or > > some other load > > balancer does is move the point of failure. > > > Also, putting in multiple A records in DNS doesn't help, as that gives > > a round-robin > > approach - I want the clients to favour the server for their > > particular site. > > > Any thoughts on how to work this would be appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
