I'ven been learning puppet over the last 2 weeks and the one thing I've come to realize is there is a completely different way of thinking that I've normally been accustomed to. I've been trying to absorb as much knowledge as possible on how I should think about organizing our infrastructure. One of the resources I've come across was this article http://www.craigdunn.org/2012/05/239/ talking about roles and profiles. I definitely like this way of thinking so I've been trying to massage it into our specific needs. I have a few questions regarding this "pattern". Now I understand the smaller, simpler aspects of setting up roles and profiles for our system.. ie, nagios, ntp, networking etc, but it starts to break down when I try to model our application needs.
Our application is a Ruby on Rails application that runs within a Unicorn server with ngninx sitting in front of it. Our application also requires the correct mounting of a NFS filer before its able to start. We also have custom nagios checks for this application as well as checking that our mounts are correctly configured. Using the above pattern of roles and profiles how could I model this? This is what I have so far: https://gist.github.com/4192914. Now I'm kind of lost and I have a bunch of questions: - Should I move the RVM logic out of webapp profile, push it down further into the company_application module, or leave it where it is? - What profile and/or module should be responsible for checking out the code from git? The webapp profile, company_application::install.pp or somewhere else? - Who should be responsible for the mounting? Module, push it down into company_application or leave it at the profile level? - Who should be responsible for the custom nagios checks? Module, push it down into company_application or leave it at the profile level? Anything else you can recommend? Any input is greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
