[chef] RE: Re: Chef Server for HA

["Sachin Kumar" < >]

Hi Julian,

My aim is to install chef server for high availability in different AZ's
in AWS.  So that if one AZ goes down, my chef server will be running in
different availability zone.

I am ok, if I have to use Enterprise chef server. 


Thanks & Regards,
Sachin Kumar

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian C. Dunn 
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Sent: 08 April 2014 17:56
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Subject: [chef] Re: Chef Server for HA

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 
<
 >
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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