[chef] Re: Memcached on a separate node?

[Adam Jacob < >]

On 12/4/12 2:54 PM, "Warren Bain" 
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>We are using the application cookbook to do Rails deployments.
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>I'm wondering about the logic around memcached which requires a separate
>node that is not the app node to be set up as a memcached master.  I'm
>not expert in this area at all but the common wisdom from our Rails
>developers is that memcached should be on the app server, not a separate
>vm which would seem to defeat the purpose.  In particular we are doing
>deployments across availability zones so the network costs is higher than
>on a same physical host vm.
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>Can someone in OpsCode explain why separate memcached node is the model?

There is no requirement that memcached be on a separate node - if you want
to run on the same machine, have a party.

Adam