Encapsulating the instance in the role allows you to capture configuration
and ensure portability, and encapsulating the role in the farm allows you
to ensure failure recovery and a few other things. Each layer has value for
your client. :)
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:44 PM Dmitri Toubelis <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]>
>> 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.
>>>
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