Resources are essential unit to perform the system configuration. Each resource will describe the particular thing in puppet. For an example, specific user needs to be created or specific file needs to be updated across the puppet agent nodes. When you would like to manage the users, “user” resource type will come in to play. If you want […]
Puppet – What is Facter ? How it works ?
This article is going to brief about Puppet’s Facter. It’s a cross platform system profiling library which helps to provide the similar formatted output on all the operating systems. Puppet agent uses facter to send the node information to the puppet server and this is required when you compile the node’s catalog. Facter system profiling library is part of […]
Puppet – How to install and configure Puppet Agent (Client) ?
Once you have configured the Puppet Server, you can start adding the puppet agents to it. This article will brief about installing and configuring the puppet agent on Linux systems (RHEL 7 and Ubuntu 14.04). Puppet agents are nothing but the client machines which will regularly pulls configuration catalogs from a Puppet master and applies them […]
Puppet – How to install and configure Puppet Enterprise (Master) ?
This article is going to brief about the Puppet Server – Enterprise installation and configuration. We are going to install the puppet server in monolithic mode. In monolithic installation, Puppet Master , Puppet console , Puppet DB will be installing on one node. This is the simple method to evaluate puppet enterprise and you can manage up to 500 puppet agent […]
Puppet – Configuration Management Software – Overview
Puppet is an open-source configuration management / IT automation software that allows system administrators to programmatically provision, configure, and manage servers, network devices, and storage, in a datacenter or in the cloud. Puppet is written on RUBY language and it is produced by Puppet Labs. Configuration Management tools uses either push or pull methods. Puppet uses pull method. […]
RHEL7 – Configuring GFS2 on Pacemaker/Corosync Cluster
This article will briefly explains about configuring the GFS2 filesystem between two cluster nodes. As you know that GFS2 is cluster filesystem and it can be mounted on more than one server at a time . Since multiple servers can mount the same filesystem, it uses the DLM (Dynamic Lock Manager) to prevent the data corruption. […]
RHEL 7 – How to configure the Fencing on Pacemaker ?
Fencing (STONITH) is an important mechanism in cluster to avoid the data corruption on shared storage. It also helps to bring the cluster into the known state when there is a split brain occurs between the nodes. Cluster nodes talks to each other over communication channels, which are typically standard network connections, such as Ethernet. Each […]
RHEL 7 – Accessing the Pacemaker WEB UI (GUI) – Part 11
Pacemaker offers web based user interface portal to manage the cluster. It also provides an interface to manage multiple clusters in single web UI. We can’t really say that WEB UI has all the options to manage the cluster. I would say that command line is much easier and simple when you compare to GUI. However , […]
RHEL 7 – Pacemaker – Configure Redundant Corosync Links on Fly– Part 10
Corosync cluster engine provides the reliable inter-cluster communications between the cluster nodes. It syncs the cluster configuration across the cluster nodes all the time. It also maintains the cluster membership and notifies when quorum is achieved or lost. It provides the messaging layer inside the cluster to manage the system and resource availability. In Veritas cluster , this functionality has […]
RHEL 7 – Pacemaker – Define the Resource Behaviour – Part 9
In Pacemaker/Corosync cluster, there are may aspects/key elements that we need to understand before playing with cluster operations. Otherwise , it might cause unnecessary outage/downtime for the services. The most important elements are setting the preferred resource location , ordering (defining dependencies) , resource fail counts, resource-stickiness, colocation, clone, master/slave, promote/demote etc. Let’s go through the article and […]