You've interpreted the documentation correctly. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36173214/how-to-setup-jenkins-with-ha and several blog posts describe different alternative for an active/passive HA setup.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 7:08 AM E.S. Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We're looking at making our jenkins setup more resilient and I was reading > the following page: > > https://jenkins.io/doc/book/architecting-for-scale/#resilient-jenkins-architecture > > This mentions the following: > "Each Jenkins master needs to be set up such that it is part of a Jenkins > cluster. > > A proxy (typically HAProxy or F5) then fronts the primary master. The > proxy’s job is to continuously monitor the primary master and route > requests to the backup if the primary goes down. To make the infrastructure > more resilient, you can have multiple backup masters configured." > > There are 2 things that I'm trying to now understand upon rereading this > section: > > 1. While the opening of this page mentions vertical vs. horizontal scaling > it would seem that there is no true way to do horizontal scaling without > creating mini-domains for which each jenkins master schedules. > > 2. There is no shared state between the machines other then maybe sharing > NFS which is OK if only 1 machine is truly active at any given time. > > Lastly it would seem a master-master setup is at this time impossible. > > Am I correct in my interpretation of the docs? > > Thanks, > Eli > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" 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/jenkinsci-users/CAHxFV_vaEwrWmSjEqdBhDGnEQdk9T-tTQ%3D%2B7SK9cGO3tyApsHw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAHxFV_vaEwrWmSjEqdBhDGnEQdk9T-tTQ%3D%2B7SK9cGO3tyApsHw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" 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/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtGiLBnnKg%2Bt4HGADpZgfOo3sRngD_d-8-d%3DTw2q1gnVkQ%40mail.gmail.com.
