Rails - Mar 2009 - Installing passenger on a 20-node farm; tool for automation?

Hi there.

I am installing passenger across our cluster, but this question applies
to software management in general across a farm.

Can you recommend a tool for installing/upgrading software (e.g.
passenger, apache, monit) on an arbitrarily big app server farm?

Thanks,
Chris
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On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
> I am installing passenger across our cluster, but this question  
> applies
> to software management in general across a farm.
>
> Can you recommend a tool for installing/upgrading software (e.g.
> passenger, apache, monit) on an arbitrarily big app server farm?
If you''re willing to run Ubuntu 8.10 right now for all 20 nodes,  
''moonshine'' from RailsMachine works really well!

It can automatically build out a full stack (Apache, Passenger, MySQL,  
etc) on systems that have yet to have been installed (and then  
continue to maintain and upgrade them).

Rails Machine Projects - Moonshine, Rails Machine Gem, Shadow Puppet

It should work with other distros (and other versions of Ubuntu), but  
will require some retrofitting.

I''ve used this tool on a few linode instances so far, and have been  
very pleased (although I''m still learning to use it).

-Kevin
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> I am installing passenger across our cluster, but this question  
> applies
> to software management in general across a farm.
>
> Can you recommend a tool for installing/upgrading software (e.g.
> passenger, apache, monit) on an arbitrarily big app server farm?
Try puppet.

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Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>> I am installing passenger across our cluster, but this question  
>> applies
>> to software management in general across a farm.
>>
>> Can you recommend a tool for installing/upgrading software (e.g.
>> passenger, apache, monit) on an arbitrarily big app server farm?
> 
> Try puppet.
Cool, puppet looks like a great solution (although it looks fairly 
involved, so I''ll have to read up a bit more).

Thanks.
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Kevin Elliott wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
> 
>> I am installing passenger across our cluster, but this question  
>> applies
>> to software management in general across a farm.
>>
>> Can you recommend a tool for installing/upgrading software (e.g.
>> passenger, apache, monit) on an arbitrarily big app server farm?
> 
> If you''re willing to run Ubuntu 8.10 right now for all 20 nodes,
> ''moonshine'' from RailsMachine works really well!
> 
> It can automatically build out a full stack (Apache, Passenger, MySQL,
> etc) on systems that have yet to have been installed (and then
> continue to maintain and upgrade them).
> 
> Rails Machine Projects - Moonshine, Rails Machine Gem, Shadow Puppet
> 
> It should work with other distros (and other versions of Ubuntu), but
> will require some retrofitting.
> 
> I''ve used this tool on a few linode instances so far, and have
been
> very pleased (although I''m still learning to use it).
> 
> -Kevin
Good info; I''ll check moonshine out.  The servers are mature (they 
already have most software package installed, running in a production 
environment), so I''ll have to see if moonshine excels both on clean 
installs and on machines with existing packages.

Cheers.
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Chris Johnson
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Cool, puppet looks like a great solution (although it looks fairly
> involved, so I''ll have to read up a bit more).
Puppet is one of those tools that takes about a day to learn enough
for it to be useful, and after about three days you can''t get along
without it, and after a week you''re cursing yourself for not learning
to use it sooner.

(Highly recommended.)

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Earl Ruby wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Chris Johnson
> <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Cool, puppet looks like a great solution (although it looks fairly
>> involved, so I''ll have to read up a bit more).
> 
> Puppet is one of those tools that takes about a day to learn enough
> for it to be useful, and after about three days you can''t get
along
> without it, and after a week you''re cursing yourself for not
learning
> to use it sooner.
> 
> (Highly recommended.)
> 
> --
> Earl Ruby
> http://earlruby.org/

Funny comment.

Ok, I''m convinced.  Thanks for that kick in the pants.
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