So now we have our systems up and running with Ubuntu 10.04 and next you want to make sure that some common configuration files are identical across your infrastructure. You also want to have specific components installed on specific servers, for instance you want your databases installed on your database servers, you want your applications
I was tasked with the job of assisting my company with the operationalization of emerging technologies such as mongodb. Specifically how we can automate many of the manual steps involved with upgrades, backup and recovery and even deployment. Today, I want to talk about how to handle rolling upgrades of mongodb with fabric and puppet.
As you may or may not know Oracle (Sun) Java has been removed from all of the Ubuntu Repositories <LINK>. For many of us this is casing problems with our puppet manifests (well for me it certainly does) so here is how I have resolved the issue. I published a puppet module on github .