June 2011
Beginner
56 pages
1h 13m
English
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Chapter 4. MCollective
Puppet is not the end of this journey. We can abstract even further if we begin to talk about pools of servers and virtual instances. What if we have a cluster of application nodes that need to be managed as groups or if we need reporting of Facter variables from all of the nodes that include a certain Puppet class? What do we do if Apache needs a kick on 25 instances out of 1000? MCollective can do these things and more.
MCollective uses a publish/subscribe message bus to distribute commands to systems in parallel. It’s used to push requests or commands out to all of your systems at once, allowing the MCollective server to decide which of the messages it should execute, based on a set of filters in the message. A good analogue of this is an IRC chat service. We can chat in a channel and receive all the messages, but messages that are intended for us will have our name attached to them.
The messages that an MCollective server consumes are then passed on to
agent modules that consume the message parameters and then do some work.
Agents exist for all sorts of behaviors, such as managing running services;
running Puppet; managing packages, processes, and files; and even banning IP
addresses with iptables. Beyond this, the agents are
fairly simple to write using SimpleRPC.
Getting the Software
MCollective installation is not as simple as Puppet was. We need to set up a Stomp messaging server and configure the MCollective server on each of our hosts before we can start ...
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