Re: Re: Creating partitions/vgs/lvms

"'Vratislav Podzimek' via help-cfengine" <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:58:14 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.sysutils.cfengine.general
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On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 01:42 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> Another view to consider...
> 
> In the machine lifecycle
>  * initial OS provisioning and installation is one step, and a few minutes in duration
>  * the ongoing configuration and maintenance is a subsequent stage, and a few years in duration.
> CFEngine is primarily about that second stage, less about the first.  At large sites, the first,
> provisioning step is often handled systematically by kickstart or something similar.
> 
> Do you regard your LVM/partitioning work as a "provisioned immediately from the outset" thing or
> as a "sometime later in the lifecycle I may want to make this mid-course adjustment" thing?
> 
> If it is "later in the lifecyle", then config. management (CFEngine) is, indeed, a good choice. 
> But if it is "right from the outset", then perhaps consider doing it in your early, provisioning
> step where you are probably already doing other LVM/partitioning operations anyway, and this might
> be a natural extension.
Good point, indeed. But I can see use cases where LVM management can actually be part of
configuration management. For example, if you run a Gluster setup or something similar.

Also, monitoring/reporting some parameters/aspects of the LVM setups on hosts might be useful.

My two cents.

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Vratislav

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