I'm not sure I understand how that would work. Take the db example, if I
want one primary and one replica, how would I go about that?

Currently, I'm using two different groups with exact_count, which is a bit
weird. If there's a better way, I'm keen to know about it.


On 8 October 2014 17:46, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote:

> At this moment I'm not sure about adding it.  In the end a name is just an
> uniqueness identifier.  I personally tend to not track
> masters/slaves/replicas based on names, but instead check for functionality
> to make that determination.  Connect to them all, run a check to see what
> they function is, use group_by to allow for easily targeting based on that
> check.
>
> I wouldn't consider a rename as something that should happen often.
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Graham Hay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 1) isn't really an option (I want to rename my db replica after
>> failover), so 2) will have to do for now. Is there any interest in adding
>> this as a feature (somewhere)?
>>
>> On 8 October 2014 17:20, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> There is not.  You have a few options:
>>>
>>> 1. Delete it and build a new one with the new name
>>> 2. Change the name in control panel, novaclient or similar
>>>
>>> The 'rax' module doesn't make changes to the servers after they are
>>> built, but rather that the servers themselves exist or not, which is in
>>> part why rax_meta exists for manipulating metadata at a later time.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Graham Hay <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to rename a rax server, using an ansible module? It
>>>> doesn't seem to be possible using the rax_meta module, and I couldn't see
>>>> anything else appropriate. I can do it in the control panel easily enough,
>>>> so I assume it can be done through the API.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Graham
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