[chef] Re: Chef Server for HA

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

I am unsure what you are trying to accomplish. That documentation is
for setting up an Enterprise Chef server in HA mode, but you state:

> b)      Used Hosted enterprise chef as chef server

so why do you need to do all this?

- Julian

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Sachin Kumar 
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 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I would like to implement this use case of  Chef server for High
> Availability (http://docs.opscode.com/enterprise/server_deploy_febe.html)
>
>  Followed the basic approach :
>
> a)      Installed chef and git repository  on administrative workstation,
> also configured knife on this system
>
> b)      Used Hosted enterprise chef as chef server
>
> c)       Installed chef-client on various clients machines using bootstrap
> from workstation.
>
>  I am using  AWS infrastructure and for assuring High Availability, I would
> like to have chef, managed from multiple AZ's
>
>  My questions:
>
>  a)      I had planned to use ELB as the load balancer  for front end
> servers. ELB will handle requests from chef-clients, workstations and chef
> server web interface. Is this the right approach??
>
> b)      I will have two chef instances (workstation) on each AZ's
> (us-east-1a,us-east-1b), from where I can make changes on cookbooks and
> configure clients.  From each instances, I can upload the changed cookbooks
> to hosted enterprise chef server.
>
> c)        What is the best approach to implement the shared VIP ??
>
> c.1          Can I have one EC2 machine, which will monitor the two chef
> instances through some shell script,  and attach/detach Network interface
> card from primary to secondary chef server.
>
> c.2          Domain Name change using Route53
>
> d)     How my both the git repositories will be synced  in different AZ's ??
>
>  Any Ideas how to implement this use case???
>
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Sachin Kumar
>
>



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