svn commit: r1101074 - in /incubator/whirr/trunk: CHANGES.txt src/site/confluence/faq.confluence

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Author: tomwhite
Date: Mon May  9 15:56:33 2011
New Revision: 1101074

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1101074&view=rev
Log:
WHIRR-300. FAQ entry for noop role. Contributed by asavu.

Modified:
    incubator/whirr/trunk/CHANGES.txt
    incubator/whirr/trunk/src/site/confluence/faq.confluence

Modified: incubator/whirr/trunk/CHANGES.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/whirr/trunk/CHANGES.txt?rev=1101074&r1=1101073&r2=1101074&view=diff
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--- incubator/whirr/trunk/CHANGES.txt (original)
+++ incubator/whirr/trunk/CHANGES.txt Mon May  9 15:56:33 2011
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 
     WHIRR-288. Add blob store persistence for cluster state (asavu)
 
+    WHIRR-300. FAQ entry for noop role. (asavu via tomwhite)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     WHIRR-253. ZooKeeper service should only authorize ingress to ZooKeeper 

Modified: incubator/whirr/trunk/src/site/confluence/faq.confluence
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/whirr/trunk/src/site/confluence/faq.confluence?rev=1101074&r1=1101073&r2=1101074&view=diff
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--- incubator/whirr/trunk/src/site/confluence/faq.confluence (original)
+++ incubator/whirr/trunk/src/site/confluence/faq.confluence Mon May  9 15:56:33 2011
@@ -178,3 +178,16 @@ You can read more about this technique o
 Also, Mac OS X users might find
 [this thread|http://superuser.com/questions/43678/mac-os-x-at-command-not-working]
 a useful reference for the {{at}} command.
+
+h2. How do I start a machine without having a cluster role?
+
+Sometimes you need to provision machines in the same cluster without having 
+a specific role. For this you can use "noop" as a role name when specifying the 
+instance templates.
+
+{code}
+whirr.instance-templates=3 zookeeper,1 noop
+# will start three machines with zookeeper and one machine just with the OS  
+{code}
+
+