I'm not feeling much love for puppet. On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Christopher Samuel <sam...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On 05/09/17 15:24, Stu Midgley wrote: > > > I am in the process of redeveloping our cluster deployment and config > > management environment and wondered what others are doing? > > xCAT here for all HPC related infrastructure. Stateful installs for > GPFS NSD servers and TSM servers, compute nodes are all statelite, so a > immutable RAMdisk image is built on the management node for the compute > cluster and then on boot they mount various items over NFS (including > the GPFS state directory). > > Nothing like your scale, of course, but it works and we know if a node > has booted a particular image it will be identical to any other node > that's set to boot the same image. > > Healthcheck scripts mark nodes offline if they don't have the current > production kernel and GPFS versions (and other checks too of course) > plus Slurm's "scontrol reboot" lets us do rolling reboots without > needing to spot when nodes have become idle. > > I've got to say I really prefer this to systems like Puppet, Salt, etc, > where you need to go and tweak an image after installation. > > For our VM infrastructure (web servers, etc) we do use Salt for that. We > used to use Puppet but we switched when the only person who understood > it left. Don't miss it at all... > > cheers, > Chris > -- > Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator > Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne > Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Dr Stuart Midgley sdm...@gmail.com
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