Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:25:54
Message-Id: 54198B8B.10701@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef by Tomas Mozes
1 On 17/09/2014 14:46, Tomas Mozes wrote:
2 > On 2014-09-17 10:08, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >
4 >> That's almost exactly the same setup I have in mind.
5 >>
6 >> How complex do the playbooks get in real-life?
7 >
8 > The common role has about 70 tasks. It does almost everything covered in
9 > the handbook plus installs and configures additional stuff like postfix,
10 > nrpe, etc. The dom0 role has 15 tasks including monitoring, xen, grub.
11 > The domU role basically just configures rc.conf.
12 >
13 > An actual web server with apache/php has just about 20 tasks. A
14 > load-balancer
15 > with varnish/nginx/keepalived has just about the same. A database has about
16 > 30 tasks because it also configures database replication.
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20 That doesn't seem too bad - almost manageable :-)
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23 Alan McKinnon
24 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com