Hello,
I am just learning the ropes with chef - I have setup a chef server and some nodes under VirtualBox to get familiar a bit, and one question I have is whether it’s common to have your chef server also be a node. Let’s say I also want to install munin for monitoring my nodes, and I want munin server to run on the same machine as chef server, and I want to use the munin opscode recipe to do so….can I make my chef server a node and install it that way, or is it preferable to have a dedicated machine just for chef and not try to put other monitoring or utility processes on that machine?
Thanks for listening!
Greg
This is what we do - I have a role for our Chef server which sets up a
backup cron and handles other base role stuff. The chef server is
self-contained, so you can safely install and bootstrap the Chef client
just as you would on any other node.
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Greg Lappen greg@lapcominc.com wrote:
Hello,
I am just learning the ropes with chef - I have setup a chef server and
some nodes under VirtualBox to get familiar a bit, and one question I have
is whether it's common to have your chef server also be a node. Let's say
I also want to install munin for monitoring my nodes, and I want munin
server to run on the same machine as chef server, and I want to use the
munin opscode recipe to do so….can I make my chef server a node and install
it that way, or is it preferable to have a dedicated machine just for chef
and not try to put other monitoring or utility processes on that machine?
Thanks for listening!
Greg
Thanks for the reply! Can you expand on what you mean by "base role stuff"?
Is monitoring included in that?
On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
This is what we do - I have a role for our Chef server which sets up a
backup cron and handles other base role stuff. The chef server is
self-contained, so you can safely install and bootstrap the Chef client
just as you would on any other node.
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Greg Lappen <greg@lapcominc.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'greg@lapcominc.com');>
wrote:
Hello,
I am just learning the ropes with chef - I have setup a chef server and
some nodes under VirtualBox to get familiar a bit, and one question I have
is whether it's common to have your chef server also be a node. Let's say
I also want to install munin for monitoring my nodes, and I want munin
server to run on the same machine as chef server, and I want to use the
munin opscode recipe to do so….can I make my chef server a node and install
it that way, or is it preferable to have a dedicated machine just for chef
and not try to put other monitoring or utility processes on that machine?
Thanks for listening!
Greg
Yep, we have a base role which includes configurations that are common
across all nodes. That's where monitoring is setup, as well.
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Greg Lappen greg@lapcominc.com wrote:
Thanks for the reply! Can you expand on what you mean by "base role
stuff"? Is monitoring included in that?
On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
This is what we do - I have a role for our Chef server which sets up a
backup cron and handles other base role stuff. The chef server is
self-contained, so you can safely install and bootstrap the Chef client
just as you would on any other node.
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Greg Lappen greg@lapcominc.com wrote:
Hello,
I am just learning the ropes with chef - I have setup a chef server and
some nodes under VirtualBox to get familiar a bit, and one question I have
is whether it's common to have your chef server also be a node. Let's say
I also want to install munin for monitoring my nodes, and I want munin
server to run on the same machine as chef server, and I want to use the
munin opscode recipe to do so….can I make my chef server a node and install
it that way, or is it preferable to have a dedicated machine just for chef
and not try to put other monitoring or utility processes on that machine?
Thanks for listening!
Greg