On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 19:15:48 +0530
Mayank Jha <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was going through this,
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Architecture.
> Had some questions around the same. The questions may sound a bit
> noobish, but anyhow am throwing it up.

Questions are good. :) 

> 1. HAProxy load balances the requests among the various app servers,
> but the configuration on which HAProxy runs, are those dynamically
> changing, or they are manually updated through some bash scripts,
> whenever there is a need to ?

They are managed by ansible. They don't change often. 
If some server is down or unreachable, haproxy just stops sending any
traffic to it and users never notice. 

> 2. Also before making the choices of HAProxy, Apache and Varnish were
> there any discussions related to why the choice is being made. Are
> those discussion docs public ?

Not that I know of, but this setup was made... 10 years ago? 
It's served us pretty well, and nothing more compelling has shown up
yet. 

kevin
 

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