[Puppet Users] Re: POLL: Migrating web changes across load-balanced servers

2009-06-14 Thread Tim Allingham
Hi Mike, I'm not sure if your after puppet-specific methods, or just general systems for this? When we set up our load balancing and DR, we preferred to keep it simple, the methods used are outlined below. 1) Site code - This is managed but subversion, we maintain separate repositories for test

[Puppet Users] Re: "Failover" for puppetmasters

2009-05-14 Thread Tim Allingham
one rather rough solution I've used for this before, is a separate monitoring daemon, that polls the primary server on a regular basis, if this falls over, the daemon then can use 1 of 2 approaches 1) Rewrite the IP for the hostname of the puppetmaster in the /etc/hosts file (really rough, but doe