I already wrote about using Nginx and X-Accel-Redirect. But today I would like to get back to it, since recently I’ve spent a lot of time trying to solve similar problem..
The problemo
We have a cdn in front of our sites and multiple pointers to static assets like a.static-example.com b.static-example.com etc. …
I was always fascinated by idea of fully automated infrastructures, where instances come and go according to particular factors like network traffic or load increase and you just observe this process form the distance allowing system to heal itself.
Now that these days we mostly deal with Cloud providers and their great APIs, …
I always forget how to do this, so finally decided to write it down (I’m talking about mysql 5.1):
Inspect current variables before changing those (optional):
mysqlshow variables like 'long_query_time' \G; ...
Let say we have multiple sites a.com b.com and c.com and created some shared resourse (widget) under shared.com. For simplicity just imagine Disqus where you need to embed comments widget (shared resourse) to every site, but don’t want to deal with AJAX “same origin policy” problems and Iframes ( actually sometimes Iframes are not so bad and could be used with care, …
Nginx supports X-Accel-Redirect for local files with no extra hassle, but what happens if you need to serve files located in some remote location like s3 and you don’t want to expose direct urls to the files? Sometimes you may want that to have control over stats or to keep an option to migrate to another file server without changing original urls. …
###BAH!
Fresh Linode instance of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Super simple recipe ( stripped down for debugging ).
include_recipe "apt" include_recipe "ohai" include_recipe "mysql::percona_repo" include_recipe "mysql::server"
I tested installation numerous times with the same OS version with Vagrant with no problems, …
This is continuation of the previous post called Provision with Chef – baby steps. Today we going to talk about the process of bootstrapping instances with Chef used by FastCompany
At this point I assume that you already got chef repo setup and wondering how you could use it to configure your fresh instances. …
This post will cover some basics behind chef-solo and the way I use it to configure machines.
With recent changes to attributes introduced in Chef 11 chef-solo became even more useful for small infrastructures and testing cookbooks with Vagrant.
What
As you probably already know chef can function in two modes:
How to generate encrypted data bag item with knife and chef-solo
This post is mostly a memo to myself, because I often forget how to how to create encrypted data bag items..
Here is the deal. We know how to generate regular data bag items with knife: knife data bag create DATA_BAG_NAME DATA_BAG_ITEM ( for those who didn’t know ). …
Backups! Everyone knows about backup importance, but because of configuration complexity many just giving up hoping to get away without them..
And then a day, week or year later it bites you in the butt! I know this because I’ve been there.. couple times actually. …
