[Spacewalk-list] SpaceWalk High Availability

Justin Edmands shockwavecs at gmail.com
Fri Feb 28 14:23:59 UTC 2014


> On Feb 28, 2014, at 7:08 AM, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently at work we use spacewalk to manage a small part of our infra-structure (around 100 machines running centos 6 from 3 environments). Recently there was a problem with our SAN storage ending up with the filesystem on the spacewalk machine having a few bad sectors (postgresql db got corrupt as consequence).
> 
> Our development team has spacewalk integrated with ansible for orchestration; If for some reason (as above) spacewalk is unavailable ansible seems to break also there is no way to install software on machines.
> 
> I'm currently looking for documentation or some 'enlightenment' on the best procedures to set spacewalk for high availability or a recommended architecture so that we have redundancy for it. Anyone can point up some docs or share experiences?
> 
> 
> NM
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I also have a small environment of about 100 machines and just do nightly Postgres backups. The entire machine, a VM, is backed up to virtual tape. Given it being a small setup, HA would be far too involved. No database backups I'm assuming?




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