I'll check out the library and the fdqn_rotate function.
Thanks.
On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:55:21 PM UTC-7, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:10:32 AM UTC-5, trevman wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking for a way to balance out services when insuring the content
>> of configuration files.
>>
>> Example is how to do this with /etc/yp.conf:
>> ##
>> domain example.com server 192.168.1.2
>> domain example.com server 192.168.1.3
>> domain example.com server 192.168.1.4
>> ##
>>
>> I'd like to *change the order of the entries *in a random or rotating
>> fashion so that multiple machines would get a *different *order so that
>> we can scale the services without having to invest in a load balancer.
>>
>> Obviously, we wouldn't want the contents to continually change on every
>> machine, so the tests would need to be appropriate.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
> There are lots of ways you could do this, but the the ready-built
> fqdn_rotate() function in Puppetlabs's add-in "stdlib" module (
> https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib) would probably serve as
> a good foundation. Put the NIS server IPs in an array, shuffle it with
> fqdn_rand(), and read the results out into your yp.conf template. Each
> node will have a consistent order as long as its FQDN does not change.
>
>
> John
>
>
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