Thanks for the input Jussi. The reprovision just hung around for five minutes then failed. Looking at the log sent me cross-eyed on this notebook.
The longer term plan was to document a process for the reprovision for future automation with Ansible. Because of the scant documentation on reprovisioning, I wasn't sure of the best way to keep my data intact. I wanted to get the zone in a state where I had to do as little with Ansible as possible which is why I'd like a best practices document. I'm kind of new to configuration management tools and this is probably a bit off-topic, but do you use Ansible to configure your zone from scratch or do you manually configure your zone and then work with Ansible to get it back to a functional state? Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from ProtonMail ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On 17 April 2018 9:20 PM, Jussi Sallinen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 17/04/2018 23.01, [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Is there any good documentation regarding reprovisioning best > > > > practices? man vmadm doesn't help much. > > > > I reprovisioned a zone with delegated datasets mounted at > > > > /var/openldap and /opt/local/etc/openldap and the zone ended up in a > > > > failed state. Recovery was simple enough but some do's and dont's for > > > > future reference would be handy. Should I have mounted the delegated > > > > datasets at their default location and symlinked instead? Do I just > > > > back my data up to a delegated dataset and copy it back after the > > > > reprovision? How do the smart people do this? > > That might have something to do with the mountpoints being under /var > > and /opt, I've always mounted the delegated dataset in /data by doing # > > zfs set mountpoint=/data and haven't seen issues when reprovisioning zones. > > What kind of behavior you faced while reprovisioning? > > Yes you could copy data over to a delegated dataset and copy back after > > reprovisioning but I've found it easiest (and quickest in terms of > > repvosioning, combined with tools such as Ansible for rebuilding new > > instances) to just edit configuration files where possible, ie. with web > > servers such as Apache or Nginx just pointing to /data/www/foobar for > > web root. > > Hope these will help a little bit. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -Jussi Sallinen > > +358 40 700 7600 > > [email protected] > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > smartos-discuss > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now > > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
