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Really interested to learn about how you use Chef to bring up and configure your ephemeral instances. Also, do you backup your databases anywhere other than on
by ra 14y ago
Really interested to learn about how you use Chef to bring up and configure your ephemeral instances.
Also, do you backup your databases anywhere other than on other ephemeral instances?
- dogas 14y agoWe still use EBS for database backups via ec2-consistent-snapshot. The slave DB that performs this is not production-facing. We have 2 separate chef recipes for our DBs: One is for a full-time slave. This recipe will set up the db to use the EBS volume. The other is for a slave that will be promoted to a master. In this case, we do a little extra legwork to do a bit-by-bit copy of a recent EBS snapshot, onto the ephemeral disk. Sounds like I have more blog posts to write!
- ra 14y agoThanks for replying. And yes I think you're ahead of the curve on this!