Thanks Sebastian. Yes, the applications are isolated, other then all of them share access to enterprise LDAP and NFS mounts, but I guess this doesn't count.
The reason I'm asking is that it felt awkward to have to define a farm and a role for a single instance, so I just wanted to double check that this is the accepted practice. Thanks On Friday, August 14, 2015 at 6:35:27 PM UTC-4, Sebastian Stadil wrote: > > Farms are isolated units, so if those 30 applications don't have any > interdependencies, they should each be represented as a Farm (with a single > Role in them, and a single Instance of that Role). > > Does that help? If you can elaborate on your concern, we can give you more > guidance. > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:59 PM Dmitri Toubelis <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I work for a client who is currently using RightScale for orchestration >> but they want to get off because of the cost. They asked me to look into >> Scalr and see if it would be a good fit. The client has ~50 instances >> running in the amazon and 30 of them are single tier/single server >> applications. I'm trying to wrap my head around how to fit them into Scalr. >> Should it be one farm/one role per server or is there a better way? It >> seems to me so far that Scalr (as name suggests :-) is good for scaling >> architectures but I'm not sure if it is a good fit for non-scalable single >> tires deployments. Are there any best practices for this use case? Any help >> is appreciated. Thanks. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "scalr-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scalr-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
