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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:03 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> What, specifically, needs to be replicated?  I'm not intimately familiar
> with the Scalr internals, I only know of the the "big pieces".  Can you
> point me to a "high availability best practices" document or list of things
> to do?
>

The MySQL databases need to be replicated (there are two databases: "scalr"
and "mysql").

We don't have HA documentation right now (though we cover this during
trainings for customers), but we'll probably add some in the near future
(it's not that we don't want to, more so that I haven't found the time to
publish it just yet).

Is there any documentation on where that scalr-agent userdata lives?  I ask
> mostly to satisfy my own curiosity as well see how invasive the changes
> are.  I 100% understand that i'd be messing around with things i shouldn't
> and that you wont be able to help if i come back asking for help w/ those
> instances.
>

In your cloud's user data (e.g. EC2 user data, OpenStack metadata).


> Additionally, I have one other question:
>
> I know that scalr uses chef solo/zero to install it's self.  Is there any
> official support or documentation for using a chef run that i control to
> deploy the server?  Basically, we'd like our entire infrastructure -
> including the core parts like Scalr to come up.  Is using Chef to manage
> the scalr config.yaml recommended or supported at all?
>

Scalr does use Chef Solo to configure itself (as well as a Chef binary that
ships within the Scalr package), but I would suggest you view this as an
implementation detail, for the two following reasons:
- It might change in the future (though that's a bit unlikely)
- You *have* to keep the installer cookbook in sync with the packages you
deploy (which is why the cookbook itself is included in the packages).

If your nonetheless want to use the Scalr cookbook yourself (and not use
the cookbook or Chef binaries that come with the installer), then you can
find it here:
https://github.com/Scalr/installer-ng/tree/master/files/scalr-server-cookbooks/scalr-server

Finally, please note that there are more config files than just the
config.yml. If you want to execute Chef yourself, I very strongly recommend
you nonetheless use our cookbook.

Cheers,

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