Hi, I avoid ensure => running. Puppet is not an ideal tool for making sure a crash-prone daemon is getting restarted.
Instead, puppet will make sure run levels are populated with the essentials. System monitoring (nagios etc.) informs of outages. Cheers, Felix On 03/22/2012 05:00 PM, Kenneth Lo wrote: > I want to gather some ideas and/or best practice with the fine folks > here in the group in terms of how you manage services in your environment. > > For essential services like ssh, it's pretty much standard affair with > the basic Package/Config/Service paradigm. Monitor the package info, > make sure it away runs and refresh if new config files are pushed. > > Now, if you have something that's more application-oriented (ie. Apache, > tomcat), how do you: > > 1. Maintain status-quo during 'normal' operation condition > 2. Turn off services monitoring (i.e. Service ensure => running) during > scheduled maintenance windows > 3. Same as 2, for reasons that application is experiencing issue > (outage) that causes by external means, and admin team need to debug > on the node. > > > In our environment right now, we defined different "application groups" > via ENC, and we load different puppet modules based on that (with > general service declaration ensure => running). One thing we keep > running into is that if we want to work on a application setup on a > specific node for whatever reason, we currently need to make sure that > node does not load the said application module. > > We accomplish that currently by UNLOADING the module reference for the > entire group. While this is serviceable, this clearly is not ideal. > > I have a couple ideas on improving our model, but I'm also interested to > know how folks here would handle that. Thanks in advances. -- 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.
