Hello, I think what you need is a way to quickly and easily deploy a new server and a solution to manage their configurations.
For automatic deployement, you have FAI (fully automatic installation). http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ That's what we were using before, FAI is usefull if you have different OS to install If you only want to install ubuntu, you can use the builtin system based on preseed. I wrote a blog post about setuping this solution: http://www.pytips.com/2010/3/29/automatic-installation-of-ubuntu-karmic At the end of the installation you'll have a minimal installation of ubuntu server. Then we use BCFG2 (you could also use puppet or cfengine), to convert our server to it's real role (eg: webserver, database, etc) The configuration tool also takes care of modifying the network configuration, and the server host name. The installation step describe in the blog use generic names for all servers: srv-XX and also setup a generic network config in a VLAN used for administration purpose: 10.0.0.XX, and takes care of all the hardware specificities It s the job of the confguration tool (bcfg2, puppet) to set the final hostname (eg: www-XX.yourdomain.com) and add the other network informations related to the role of the server. This way we can easily change the role of a server without reinstallation. For the partion management, all servers have the same setup for the 10 first Go and the rest of the available space is handle by the configuration system. The first 10Go are Raid1 holding the base system and the swap space. Sebastien Estienne On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 19:46, Eric Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > My lead developer has been thinking about putting our SAAS > application (java / postgresql) in a cluster/cloud. He has used ROCKS > cluster in the past, and touts it's advantage of deploying thousands > of machines in the same amount of time to as it takes to deploy two. > More info about ROCKS here http://www.rocksclusters.org. Problem is > ROCKS is Red Hat only. As it stands now I have the devs onboard with > Ubuntu and have migrated away from RHEL 4, but the lead has tasked me > to start to take a look at a ROCKS type solution. Any experience, > insight, about Landscape, Ubuntu Cloud, or some other type of > software/service that provides something like ROCKS does? > > > Thanks for your time, > > Eric > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
