On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:10:07PM -0700, Dmitry V'yal wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently administering a vps running a dozen of php-sites. I use > several scripts for deploying new sites, updating them, taking the > backups and so on. All the system is quite fragile and error-prone. > I'm thinking about some more integrated solution. Can puppet be useful > in my situation? Or is it primarily intended for managing big number > of similarly configured hosts?
The latter, but that doesn't necessarily mean puppet couldn't be useful to you. After all, puppet lets you define dependencies so that you can specify that action A is triggered when file B is modified, action C happens if acion A is successful and so on, which must describe half of what your scripts do. It also lets you define templates and then create multiple instances based on those templates and different configurations, which must be the other half of what you do. So I think it can help you. And you may find other things about your vps that it can configure for you. I would create a definition that describes your site layout. Each time you invoke that definition in your script, with different parameters, it'll create the site for you and trigger any necessary actions (like restarting apache). You can also have the directory hierarchy that contains your sites managed by puppet in such a way that it will delete any files that weren't created by your current puppet config. That way, all you have to do is remove the description of a site from your config and all the files previously generated for it will be removed the next time puppet is run. You don't need a puppetmaster to run puppet, you can run it on a single host from local standalone scripts. So you don't need to incur the overhead of running puppetmaster and puppet daemons just for your sites. Of course, you can do this yourself by choosing your own templating system and writing scripts to manipulate it, but puppet can make it much simpler. -- Bruce If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too simple to understand it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
