Deployment Server and Load Balancer?

[gschmitz]

Can you put a deployment server behind a load balancer if the deployment-apps directory is on an NFS share and serverclass.conf is synchronised by another deployment server?
Sounds like a good way to reduce load and increase availability without costs to me.

[gschmitz · Accepted solution]

Quoting Jonathon Cervelli "Absolutely". In a widely distributed installation you can also achieve quicker deployments by placing accelerators locally. This way the bundles will only go via the wan once.

[dstaulcu]

tried this.. nope. not unless you want to re-download apps over and over again as your deployment-client his different instances of deployment server over time.

[twollenslegel_s]

Newer versions of Splunk offers the ability to have same checksum over multiple servers, so they won't reload every time they connect to new server.

Check out serverclass.conf

crossServerChecksum = true|false
* Ensures that each app will have the same checksum across different deployment
servers.
* Useful if you have multiple deployment servers behind a load-balancer.
* Defaults to false.

[gschmitz]

Well actually you could symlink serverclass.conf to the NFS share too...