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The people who argue against naming machines in an automated fashion don't have hundreds or thousands to manage. We do something simple: class of machine + num
by davidu 16y ago
The people who argue against naming machines in an automated fashion don't have hundreds or thousands to manage.
We do something simple: class of machine + number . city.
m1.sjc1 == generic machine in san jose
m2.sjc1 == another generic machine in san jose
db1.ams1 == database class machine in amsterdam
ops1.chi1 == ops class machine in chicago
Very scalable and easy to manage. Custom names are annoying. Your machine management system can tell you what function they serve.
- ubernostrum 16y agoThe people who argue against naming machines in an automated fashion don't have hundreds or thousands to manage. The people who argue that their use case -- regardless of whether it's ten machines or ten thousand machines -- can be generalized into something everyone has to do are the people I try to avoid arguing with.
- davidu 16y agoRight, which is why I didn't do that (unlike the entire point of the URL in the OP, which does that). I just said that those groups of people don't have hundreds or thousands of machines to manage if they can maintain a custom naming scheme. I didn't say everyone has to do that. All my personal servers are few-lettered women's names. Laura, Amy, Mary, Sara, Christy, etc. To each, their own. So please don't troll for karma. Especially on Christmas. Especially on HN. Or maybe I misunderstood your point as being some snippy remark, in which case, sorry.