Re: Using Puppet for Cartridge configuration

[Alejandro Bonilla <ab...@linuxwireless.org>]

Have you considered CFengine instead of Puppet? This due to the
dependencies, footprint and resources that puppet requires...


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Sajith Kariyawasam <sa...@wso2.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In current Stratos architecture, configurations of a cartridge instance are
> kept inside the cartridge image (AMI), and if configuration needs to modify
> later, AMI need to be recreated with the new configs.
>
> I think using a Puppet based model, this can be optimized.  Configuration
> can be kept in a puppet master node, and puppet agent need to be installed
> in the cartridge so that it retrieves the relevant configuration
> from puppet master at the instance bootup.
>
> Also, it eases the patching process and easy to ship AMIs ( Need to install
> puppet related packages only)
>
> Further a puppet based model can be used for cartridge creation as well.
>
> Appreciate your thoughts on this.
>
>
> Thanks
> Sajith
>
> --
> Sajith Kariyawasam
> Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.
> AMIE (SL)
> Blog: http://sajithblogs.blogspot.com/
> Mobile: +94772269575

Re: Using Puppet for Cartridge configuration

[Sajith Kariyawasam <sa...@wso2.com>]

Hi Alejandro,

Thanks for the feedback. I'm familiar with Puppet only, if you can help
with CFengine related stuff and contribute, you are welcome to do so..!

Thanks
Sajith


On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Alejandro Bonilla <
abonilla@linuxwireless.org> wrote:

> Have you considered CFengine instead of Puppet? This due to the
> dependencies, footprint and resources that puppet requires...
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Sajith Kariyawasam <sa...@wso2.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In current Stratos architecture, configurations of a cartridge instance
> are
> > kept inside the cartridge image (AMI), and if configuration needs to
> modify
> > later, AMI need to be recreated with the new configs.
> >
> > I think using a Puppet based model, this can be optimized.  Configuration
> > can be kept in a puppet master node, and puppet agent need to be
> installed
> > in the cartridge so that it retrieves the relevant configuration
> > from puppet master at the instance bootup.
> >
> > Also, it eases the patching process and easy to ship AMIs ( Need to
> install
> > puppet related packages only)
> >
> > Further a puppet based model can be used for cartridge creation as well.
> >
> > Appreciate your thoughts on this.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sajith
> >
> > --
> > Sajith Kariyawasam
> > Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.
> > AMIE (SL)
> > Blog: http://sajithblogs.blogspot.com/
> > Mobile: +94772269575
>



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*Sajith Kariyawasam*
*Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.*
*AMIE (SL)*
*Blog: http://sajithblogs.blogspot.com/ <http://sajithblogs.blogspot.com/>*
*Mobile: +94772269575*