Michael, thanks for you response. I agree that this stuff should be in the
database cookbook. Right now we're only deploying single instances, but
we'll eventually be deploying as a multi-instance infrastructure so I want
to get this right.
Would you say the code I've included above (from the application cookbook)
is in the wrong place? To date our whole strategy has been based on the
quick start, so I hope that it is best practice.
We'd eventually like to have a corresponding copy of the database for each
revision in the revisions directory. That happens in django.rb, and it
would seem to make sense to do database migration from the same place.
Yes, a deploy is triggered on the Django server. If the Git repositiory has
changed it grabs the new code and creates a new revision.
So, when it's all said and done, what's the right way to do this?
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Web Developer
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Michael Schueler <
michael.schueler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I don't think that nodes performing changes on other nodes is a good use
case for chef, nor is it a good idea. This stuff should be in your
database cookbook.
If you don't really care about that and just want to do it anyways there
are many different ways to do this. I think that the simplest way would
have the recipe pass dbm[:fqdn] to an external script to do this for you.
Or.. you could just put the whole thing into an execute block in your
recipe.
This kind of stuff really belongs in your orchestration or deploy scripts
How do you trigger a deploy right now? Issuing a chef run on your Django
server?
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Kevin Harvey kcharvey@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all, I'm trying to keep versioned copies of my database with each
new revision of my Django code. I'm working from the Django Quickstart.
In django.rb I have:
...
dbm = nil
If we are the database master
if node.run_list.roles.include?(app["database_master_role"][0])
dbm = node
else
Find the database master
results = search(:node, "role:#{app["database_master_role"][0]} AND
chef_environment:#{node.chef_environment}", nil, 0, 1)
rows = results[0]
if rows.length == 1
dbm = rows[0]
end
end
...
After this block I have the variable dbm, which should point to the node
with the database_master role, whether that's the node I'm on or some other
node. (Right?)
Is there a way I can use that variable to run commands just on that node
from this recipe? I'd like to do a mysqldump, create a new database with
the revision number, and load the dump into it in the before_migrationcallback in django.rb. Thanks in advance!
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Kevin Harvey
Web Developer
kcharvey@gmail.com