I believe it is fairly reliable (gets updated whenever a new app is brought up/down). I use it from php using (glob) to create an array of the available application servers, then connect through memcached. It worked great thus far.
On Jun 1, 11:40 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for that. Whilst I understand _what_ that's showing me I don't > understand how it's updated or how timely the updates are. Could you > explain? At the moment I'm looking at writing a shell script to handle > the output from ec2_listhosts. Would using /etc/aws/hosts/app/ be as > reliable? > > TIA. > > On Jun 1, 9:22 pm, brandonlee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > see /etc/aws/hosts/app/ directory > > > On Jun 1, 10:20 pm, "[email protected]" > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way of retrieving a list of app instances within a given > > > farm from a shell script? I want to rsync files from a central server > > > to each instance of my app within the farm, obviously as the farm > > > scales and grows it will be necessary to sync to more instances. > > > > Could anyone advise whether this is possible? I guess it must be > > > possible somehow because the www role must "detect" which app roles > > > are available to load balance to them, I essentially want to do the > > > same thing with rsync. It's probably a custom role in its own right > > > for my uses. > > > > TIA.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scalr-discuss" 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/scalr-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
