Category: Nerd Babel
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Networking, interrelationships
Part of the task of making a High Availability system is to make sure there is no single point of failure. To this end, everything is supposed to be redundant. So let’s take the office infrastructure as a starting point. We need to have multiple compute nodes and multiple data storage systems. Every compute node…
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Docker Swarm?
There is this interesting point where you realize that you own a data center. My data center doesn’t look like that beautiful server farm in the picture, but I do have one. I have multiple servers, each with reasonable amounts of memory. I have independent nodes, capable of performing as ceph nodes and as docker…
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High Availability Services
People get very upset when they go to visit Amazon, Netflix, or just their favorite gun blog and the site is down. This happens when a site is not configured with high availability in mind. The gist is that we do not want to have a single point of failure, anywhere in the system. To…
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For Lack of (nerd post)
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceivebe a system admin I’ve been deep into a learning curve for the last couple of months, broken by required trips to see dad before he passes. The issue at hand is that I need to reduce our infrastructure costs. They are out…