[Beowulf] anyone using SALT on your clusters?

[Deepak Singh]

On Jun 28, 2013, at 1:16, Jonathan Barber <jonathan.barber at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you think about services rather than systems, and include all of the supporting systems required for a cluster to operate, the number of different "nodes" increases. I believe current practice in large scale webshops is to dedicate machines to single services, so for them system == service.


That is often the case. This is especially true in auto scaled environments where services and nodes light up bases on load and also allows you to degrade gracefully or a service has some issues.