Thanks Antony. I assumed 500 devices as an example. I saw a vedio from redhat about 10000 devices management using ansible it can be considered as massive and makes sense 🙃
What solution you would prefer for taking backups of network devices ? On Tue, 15 Jun, 2021, 12:11 am Antony Stone, < antony.st...@ansible.open.source.it> wrote: > On Monday 14 June 2021 at 20:31:53, Parth Patel wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Let's say we have 500 network devices > > I'm sure there are people here who would not describe that as "massive" :) > > > and we use ansible or nornir. > > If we deploy it from let's say single configuration management server > that > > single would be single point of failure > > Keep a mirror of your ansible server and its configuration. Either > machine can > then perform updates and installations. There's no reason ansible and its > configuration needs to exist on only one machine. > > > or let's say single point of security hit ? > > Your ansible server should not be exposed to access from the Internet. > > Your ansible server needs to connect to your managed servers, but it does > not > need to be reachable by any external system. > > > What are other strategy to manage such scenario such as doing regular > > backup of devices and storing running config in some sort of storage ? > > Taking backups of devices which are managed / installed by ansible is > probably > a good idea, but is entirely outside the scope of what ansible needs to do > (other than perhaps install the backup system). > > As for "storing running config", that depends very much on what your > managed > servers are doing, and how you would intend to recover if one went down, > got > corrupted, caught fire, or became unreachable. > > Ansible is a configuration management system. Backups and high > availability > are separate topics with separate tools. > > > Antony. > > -- > In Heaven, the beer is Belgian, the chefs are Italian, the supermarkets > are > British, the mechanics are German, the lovers are French, the > entertainment is > American, and everything is organised by the Swiss. > > In Hell, the beer is American, the chefs are British, the supermarkets are > German, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, the entertainment > is > Belgian, and everything is organised by the Italians. > > Please reply to the > list; > please *don't* CC > me. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEMGyLL3CqXXs0GY%3D7b%2BjvO3R%2B2KsedXUNL9jtisuQVXhmjJEg%40mail.gmail.com.
