> Keep in mind we spin up and down virtual nodes regularly, so that > anything we can do to optimize deployment speed of a full rails stack > is helpful. (When not anything, we are avoiding baking the gems into > our base OS install image). > > Yea obviously in binary form is the fastest. I didn't realize you create/destroy a lot of instances. I would think in your case a few months is at least the minimum lifecycle for an instance. I assume you do to quickly create more capacity? Are you doing it on some automated basis to add/remove more resources?
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/12/why-i-dont-like-cloud-auto-scaling.html I'm somewhat for not completely taking the man out of the loop. We have our control panel setup (DirectAdmin) take over 1 hour to build with Puppet because of the control panel loves to compile so many things :-(. We kept it that way since by default that's how it works. The inertia is too great to change their (stupid) methodology. > >> -L >> >> -- >> Larry Ludwig >> Empowering Media >> 1-866-792-0489 x600 >> Managed and Unmanaged Xen VPSes >> http://www.hostcube.com/ >> >> >> -L -- Larry Ludwig Empowering Media 1-866-792-0489 x600 Managed and Unmanaged Xen VPSes http://www.hostcube.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
