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, < [email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEMGyLL3CqXXs0GY%3D7b%2BjvO3R%2B2KsedXUNL9jtisuQVXhmjJEg%40mail.gmail.com.
