Kevin Elliott wrote: > On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: > >> I am installing passenger across our cluster, but this question >> applies >> to software management in general across a farm. >> >> Can you recommend a tool for installing/upgrading software (e.g. >> passenger, apache, monit) on an arbitrarily big app server farm? > > If you're willing to run Ubuntu 8.10 right now for all 20 nodes, > 'moonshine' from RailsMachine works really well! > > It can automatically build out a full stack (Apache, Passenger, MySQL, > etc) on systems that have yet to have been installed (and then > continue to maintain and upgrade them). > > Rails Machine Projects - Moonshine, Rails Machine Gem, Shadow Puppet > > It should work with other distros (and other versions of Ubuntu), but > will require some retrofitting. > > I've used this tool on a few linode instances so far, and have been > very pleased (although I'm still learning to use it). > > -Kevin
Good info; I'll check moonshine out. The servers are mature (they already have most software package installed, running in a production environment), so I'll have to see if moonshine excels both on clean installs and on machines with existing packages. Cheers. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
