On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Michael DeHaan <mich...@ansible.com> wrote:
> > You can definitely consider running the Ansible control machine *inside* > EC2, where connections will be more reliable (and also faster), which is > something I usually recommend to folks. > We run an Ansible Tower instance in EC2 that runs these tasks. This is where we are seeing the issues. We've tried running the playbooks from a few different host machines on there, but we always eventually run into the periodic SSH network failure where subsequent retries eventually work. > Another thing is when spinning up new instances, using the "wait_for" > trick, be sure to put a sleep in after the wait_for. SSH ports can come > up but not be quite ready, which gives the appearance of SSH failure. I'm > wondering if that might be part of it, or if you're seeing connection > issues at effectively random points or just those. > While we do use Ansible for provisioning new instances, that's not where we're seeing the issue. It's our playbooks for rolling out code updates. We're just SSH'ing into each (existing) app server, transferring the updated code, and running a process restart. So by the time we run these playbooks, the instances could be hours or days or months old at that point, making the port readiness issue a non-factor. Most of the time the EC2 network is fast and reliable, but we deploy frequently and do run into these issues from time to time. This is consistent with the errors we've seen with our app servers temporarily being unable to reach ElastiCache instances. Failure is just one of those things we have to live with and build for in EC2. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAA0B%3D%3DStjXCd7F7SHM4xXRdcA00NJVUmFLCTA8MEkmjWhP%2BOSA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
