Using HAProxy and Keepalived for HA Puppet
December 2nd, 2010
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I’ve had a “backup” puppet server for some time now, but the fail-over was completely manual. Meaning if the main puppet server failed, I’d actually need to change DNS to point to the other server. This if fine for environments where a bit of downtime does not hurt, but in a production environment it’s less than ideal. When I had a bit of spare time recently I decided to implement an automatic fail over for our environment. To do this I decided to use HAProxy for the load balancing and keepalived to manage a virtual IP.
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