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diff --git a/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi b/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi index 656cd33e..51e60c82 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi +++ b/gemfeed/2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi @@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ > Published at 2024-03-30T22:12:56+02:00 +I have always wanted a highly available setup for my personal websites. I could have used off-the-shelf hosting solutions or hosted my sites in an AWS S3 bucket. I have used technologies like (in unsorted and slightly unrelated order) BGP, LVS/IPVS, ldirectord, Pacemaker, STONITH, scripted VIP failover via ARP, heartbeat, heartbeat2, Corosync, keepalived, DRBD, and commercial F5 Load Balancers for high availability at work. + +But still, my personal sites were never highly available. All those technologies are great for professional use, but I was looking for something much more straightforward for my personal space - something as KISS (keep it simple and stupid) as possible. + +It would be fine if my personal website wasn't highly available, but the geek in me wants it anyway. + +> PS: ASCII-art below reflects an OpenBSD under-water world with all the tools available in the base system. + ``` Art by Michael J. Penick (mod. by Paul B.) ACME-sky @@ -27,30 +35,19 @@ _____|_:_:_| (o)-(o) |_:_:_|--'`-. ,--. ksh under-water (((\'/ ``` -``` -Table of contents -================= - -KISS high-availability with OpenBSD - My auto-failover requirements - My HA solution - Only OpenBSD base installation required - Fairly cheap and geo-redundant - Failover time and split-brain - Failover support for multiple protocols - Let's encrypt TLS certificates - Monitoring - Rex automation - More HA -``` - -I have always wanted a highly available setup for my personal websites. I could have used off-the-shelf hosting solutions or hosted my sites in an AWS S3 bucket. I have used technologies like (in unsorted and slightly unrelated order) BGP, LVS/IPVS, ldirectord, Pacemaker, STONITH, scripted VIP failover via ARP, heartbeat, heartbeat2, Corosync, keepalived, DRBD, and commercial F5 Load Balancers for high availability at work. +## Table of Contents -But still, my personal sites were never highly available. All those technologies are great for professional use, but I was looking for something much more straightforward for my personal space - something as KISS (keep it simple and stupid) as possible. - -It would be fine if my personal website wasn't highly available, but the geek in me wants it anyway. - -> PS: ASCII-art reflects an OpenBSD under-water world with all the tools available in the base system. +* ⇢ KISS high-availability with OpenBSD +* ⇢ ⇢ My auto-failover requirements +* ⇢ ⇢ My HA solution +* ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Only OpenBSD base installation required +* ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Fairly cheap and geo-redundant +* ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Failover time and split-brain +* ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Failover support for multiple protocols +* ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Let's encrypt TLS certificates +* ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Monitoring +* ⇢ ⇢ ⇢ Rex automation +* ⇢ ⇢ More HA ## My auto-failover requirements @@ -303,12 +300,15 @@ E-Mail your comments to `paul@nospam.buetow.org` :-) Other *BSD and KISS related posts are: -=> ./2016-04-09-jails-and-zfs-on-freebsd-with-puppet.gmi 2016-04-09 Jails and ZFS with Puppet on FreeBSD -=> ./2022-07-30-lets-encrypt-with-openbsd-and-rex.gmi 2022-07-30 Let's Encrypt with OpenBSD and Rex -=> ./2022-10-30-installing-dtail-on-openbsd.gmi 2022-10-30 Installing DTail on OpenBSD -=> ./2023-06-01-kiss-server-monitoring-with-gogios.gmi 2023-06-01 KISS server monitoring with Gogios -=> ./2023-10-29-kiss-static-web-photo-albums-with-photoalbum.sh.gmi 2023-10-29 KISS static web photo albums with `photoalbum.sh` -=> ./2024-01-13-one-reason-why-i-love-openbsd.gmi 2024-01-13 One reason why I love OpenBSD +=> ./2025-02-01-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-3.gmi 2025-02-01 f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD - Part 3: Protecting from power cuts +=> ./2024-12-03-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-2.gmi 2024-12-03 f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD - Part 2: Hardware and base installation +=> ./2024-11-17-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-1.gmi 2024-11-17 f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD - Part 1: Setting the stage => ./2024-04-01-KISS-high-availability-with-OpenBSD.gmi 2024-04-01 KISS high-availability with OpenBSD (You are currently reading this) +=> ./2024-01-13-one-reason-why-i-love-openbsd.gmi 2024-01-13 One reason why I love OpenBSD +=> ./2023-10-29-kiss-static-web-photo-albums-with-photoalbum.sh.gmi 2023-10-29 KISS static web photo albums with `photoalbum.sh` +=> ./2023-06-01-kiss-server-monitoring-with-gogios.gmi 2023-06-01 KISS server monitoring with Gogios +=> ./2022-10-30-installing-dtail-on-openbsd.gmi 2022-10-30 Installing DTail on OpenBSD +=> ./2022-07-30-lets-encrypt-with-openbsd-and-rex.gmi 2022-07-30 Let's Encrypt with OpenBSD and Rex +=> ./2016-04-09-jails-and-zfs-on-freebsd-with-puppet.gmi 2016-04-09 Jails and ZFS with Puppet on FreeBSD => ../ Back to the main site |