you mean ad-hoc maintenance formations wont help?

probably should have it deployed using formations initially and use
user-data to customize the server with specific installs etc?


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Dick Davies <d...@hellooperator.net>
wrote:

> For provisioning yes , for ad-hoc maintenance tasks won't help at all.
>
> On 16 July 2014 11:29, Nayeem Syed <nay...@cronycle.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for those! I will give it a try to get some deployment through
> > ansible.
> >
> > I was also wondering if Cloudformation might be good for this? As it
> clears
> > up the things very cleanly when you remove the formation? Though I find
> > their JSON file very difficult to navigate and their Update Feature
> doesnt
> > seem to work too well..
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Dick Davies <d...@hellooperator.net>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd like to show you my playbooks, but unfortunately they're for a
> client
> >> - I can vouch for it being very easy to add nodes to a cluster etc. if
> you
> >> just have to edit an 'inventory' file and add IPs into the correct
> groups.
> >>
> >> (NB: puppet and chef will automate your infrastructure too, it's just
> >> they're
> >> not as useful for things like rolling deployments in my experience
> because
> >> they're agent based, so it's harder to control when each server will
> >> update and
> >> restart services).
> >>
> >> A quick Google found:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://blog.michaelhamrah.com/2014/06/setting-up-a-multi-node-mesos-cluster-running-docker-haproxy-and-marathon-with-ansible/
> >>
> >> which might be useful.
> >>
> >> The play books linked from that post are for bootstrapping a cluster,
> but
> >> it's
> >> pretty simple to add a second playbook to manage rolling deploys etc.
> >> There's some Ansible examples of rolling deploys (not Mesos specific)
> >> at :
> >>
> >> http://docs.ansible.com/guide_rolling_upgrade.html
> >>
> >>
> >> On 15 July 2014 14:41, Nayeem Syed <nay...@cronycle.com> wrote:
> >> > thanks!
> >> >
> >> > do you have some examples of how you are using it with ansible? i dont
> >> > have
> >> > specific preferences, whatever works really.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Dick Davies <d...@hellooperator.net>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> You want a rolling restart i'd guess, unless you want downtime for
> some
> >> >> reason.
> >> >>
> >> >> We use Ansible, it's pretty nice.
> >> >>
> >> >> On 15 July 2014 10:47, Nayeem Syed <nay...@cronycle.com> wrote:
> >> >> > whats the best way to update mesos master instances. eg I want to
> >> >> > update
> >> >> > things in there, install new frameworks, but at the moment I am
> >> >> > ssh'ing
> >> >> > to
> >> >> > the instances and installing them one by one. that feels wrong,
> >> >> > shouldnt
> >> >> > it
> >> >> > be done in parallel to all the instances?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > what do people currently do to keep all the masters in sync?
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
>

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