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[Discuss] Redundant array of inexpensive servers: clustering?
- Subject: [Discuss] Redundant array of inexpensive servers: clustering?
- From: gcmarx at gmail.com (Gordon Marx)
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 07:25:05 -0400
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> On Mar 31, 2014, at 10:56 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote: > Christoph's talk a couple weeks ago on LXC and Docker, and Federico's talk > last year on OpenStack, look to me like the early stages of establishing > such a taxonomy and building an infrastructure to make the common cases > easier to develop and deploy. Brief plug: if you want to do this at scale and for cash, send me an email. Gordon > Of course, some setups will still remain unique snowflakes, especially > those involving legacy applications, But then, adding HA to a legacy > application after the fact is a lot like adding security to an application > after it's been developed, instead of addressing security as part of the > application development process. > > > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>wrote: > >> Tom Metro wrote: >> >>> I think much of the reset ends up being carefully developed in-house >>> configurations that haven't been shared back with the community. >>> >> >> That's because a HA configuration is unique to the services and >> applications it's wrapped around. I can share how I implemented a given HA >> cluster in general terms but the specifics won't do you any good. You can't >> pick up my config and drop it onto your cluster and expect it to work >> because it won't. >> >> Except when it will. That's what AWS and similar services do. But they do >> it not with service groups and resources but with entire virtual machines. >> Very nifty, actually, and very enticing to an organization that wants lots >> of computing power for little money. Of course none of these are actually >> highly available services, a little fact that gets neglected when the bean >> counters look at costs. But, hey, you get what you pay for. >> >> -- >> Rich P. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss at blu.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email: abreauj at gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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