asterisk users - Dec 2020 - Which is the most FHS-esque way to run several Asterisk instances on a single host ?

Hello,

What is the most FHS-esque (see [1])  way to run several Asterisk instances
on a single (Debian) host ?

What would you recommend ?
Would gather each instance directories (etc/, run/, lib/, ...)  in
something like /srv/instance1/
(it doesn't please me as I like to put variable data in /var and on so) ?

Alternatively, would you with /etc/asterisk1/, /var/lib/asterisk1, ... ?

Would you even create a dedicated system user, one per instance, to further
isolate asterisk instances data ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

Cheers

PS: On a Debian-packaged Asterisk, I've got /usr/sbin/rasterisk linked to
/usr/sbin/asterisk. How can you explain directly running /usr/sbin/asterisk
"requires" a -r option while  /usr/sbin/rasterisk does not ?
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On Friday 20 November 2020 at 18:29:58, Olivier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> What is the most FHS-esque (see [1])  way to run several Asterisk instances
> on a single (Debian) host ?
How about using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lxc ?

It's much lighter in resource usage on the physical server than doing full 
KVM- or XEN-style virtualisation, but provides all the separation and 
compartmentalisation you need.


Antony.

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me.

Link [1] interestingly details how you can run several daemon instances
with systemctl.
Note that the author uses things like

/run/asterisk/instance-foo
/var/lib/asterisk/instance-foo

[1]
https://opensource.com/article/20/12/multiple-service-instances-systemctl

Le ven. 20 nov. 2020 à 18:29, Olivier <oza.4h07 at gmail.com> a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> What is the most FHS-esque (see [1])  way to run several Asterisk
> instances on a single (Debian) host ?
>
> What would you recommend ?
> Would gather each instance directories (etc/, run/, lib/, ...)  in
> something like /srv/instance1/
> (it doesn't please me as I like to put variable data in /var and on so)
?
>
> Alternatively, would you with /etc/asterisk1/, /var/lib/asterisk1, ... ?
>
> Would you even create a dedicated system user, one per instance, to
> further isolate asterisk instances data ?
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
>
> Cheers
>
> PS: On a Debian-packaged Asterisk, I've got /usr/sbin/rasterisk linked
to
> /usr/sbin/asterisk. How can you explain directly running /usr/sbin/asterisk
> "requires" a -r option while  /usr/sbin/rasterisk does not ?
>
>
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