Hi,
does anyone know of any already written cookbook for setup and management
of pacemaker that is compatible with debian?
I’m looking to setup some loadbalancers/reverse proxies using nginx and
pacemaker for ip failover and service restart but so far I’m stuck finding
anything current for pacemaker and thought it was worth checking here
before starting from scratch.
thanks
Mat
On 29 August 2012 11:10, Mat Davies ashmere@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
does anyone know of any already written cookbook for setup and management
of pacemaker that is compatible with debian?I'm looking to setup some loadbalancers/reverse proxies using nginx and
pacemaker for ip failover and service restart but so far I'm stuck finding
anything current for pacemaker and thought it was worth checking here
before starting from scratch.
I'm just getting round to looking at Pacemaker + Corosync + Chef as well,
but for DB failover. So far I've found this:
https://github.com/mattray/barclamp_ha_service/tree/pacemaker_service/chef/cookbooks/pacemaker
As the author notes, the stumbling block is letting pacemaker manage the
services instead of chef. I'd be very interested to discuss any solutions.
Regards,
Matt
thanks
Mat
On 29 August 2012 11:25, Matt Kynaston matt@claritum.com wrote:
On 29 August 2012 11:10, Mat Davies ashmere@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
does anyone know of any already written cookbook for setup and management
of pacemaker that is compatible with debian?I'm looking to setup some loadbalancers/reverse proxies using nginx and
pacemaker for ip failover and service restart but so far I'm stuck finding
anything current for pacemaker and thought it was worth checking here
before starting from scratch.I'm just getting round to looking at Pacemaker + Corosync + Chef as well,
but for DB failover. So far I've found this:https://github.com/mattray/barclamp_ha_service/tree/pacemaker_service/chef/cookbooks/pacemaker
As the author notes, the stumbling block is letting pacemaker manage the
services instead of chef. I'd be very interested to discuss any solutions.
It looks interesting I've not really looked into barclamp and crowbar
before, it looks to be far broader coverage than I was thinking of as it is
try to setup and manage drbd etc.
I have been using a non chef managed Pacemaker + Corosync for a redis
failover environment and had issues with disk sync issues so was planning
on avoiding that for a HA loadbalancer that does have any requirement for
disk sync.
On 29 August 2012 11:48, Mat Davies ashmere@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 August 2012 11:25, Matt Kynaston matt@claritum.com wrote:
On 29 August 2012 11:10, Mat Davies ashmere@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
does anyone know of any already written cookbook for setup and
management of pacemaker that is compatible with debian?I'm looking to setup some loadbalancers/reverse proxies using nginx and
pacemaker for ip failover and service restart but so far I'm stuck finding
anything current for pacemaker and thought it was worth checking here
before starting from scratch.I'm just getting round to looking at Pacemaker + Corosync + Chef as well,
but for DB failover. So far I've found this:https://github.com/mattray/barclamp_ha_service/tree/pacemaker_service/chef/cookbooks/pacemaker
As the author notes, the stumbling block is letting pacemaker manage the
services instead of chef. I'd be very interested to discuss any solutions.It looks interesting I've not really looked into barclamp and crowbar
before, it looks to be far broader coverage than I was thinking of as it is
try to setup and manage drbd etc.
Yeah but it doesn't look like the recipes and LWRP he's got actually do
anything with barclamp/crowbar or drdb. Haven't tried them, mind, just
scooted through the code 
The solution I'm trying to build uses replication, not drdb[1]. I'm pretty
new to all this, and the problem I'm trying to get to grips with is
separating out the responsibilities of Pacemaker and Chef. In some ways
they're both doing similar things - holding information about nodes,
configuring them, stopping/starting services. It'll be easy for them to get
in a fight!
I don't know how relevant any of this will be for your setup, but my
thinking so far goes:
Adding new nodes: Chef only ever adds slaves. Initial setup of master is
manual (though Chef knows which nodes are slaves and which is master):
Configuration changes:
Failover:
Matt Ray suggests replacing the init scripts with symlinks to /dev/true so
Chef doesn't screw things up trying to start and stop services. I'm
wondering if it would be better to replace them with scripts that talk to
Pacemaker.
Any thoughts or comments very welcome.
Matt
https://github.com/jayjanssen/Percona-Pacemaker-Resource-Agents/blob/master/doc/PRM-setup-guide.rst
I have been using a non chef managed Pacemaker + Corosync for a redis
failover environment and had issues with disk sync issues so was planning
on avoiding that for a HA loadbalancer that does have any requirement for
disk sync.