Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Aug 20, 2008
Tags: amazon, aws, cloud, ec2, high availability
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HAProxy seems very promising as a production use software loadbalancer. The only drawback with this solution is that one still has to use some extra piece of middleware to terminate a ssl session (stunnel, apache).
Continue Reading…Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Aug 26, 2008
Tags: amazon, aws, capistrano, cloud, ec2, environment 2.0, high availability, iclassify, puppet
Technorati Tags: amazon, aws, capistrano, cloud, ec2, environment 2.0, high availability, iclassify, puppet
There is a new hype: cloud computing. Your web site traffic grows? Add a new application server. Want to increase availability? Add a new web server. Among others Amazon offers a whole bunch of infrastructure to support these needs. But it is not enough to fire up a server. The web server should include apache, the app server should include tomcat. The deployment should be aware of the new app server. This is where Puppet, iClassify, and Capistrano come into play. Puppet does the configuration management, installs your desired web and app server.
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