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Deployment Synchronization¶

When you have a clustered deployment, the integration artifacts deployed in each server node of the cluster needs to be identical. This can be achieved by synchronizing the deployment directories of each server. That is, the <MI_HOME>/repository/deployment/server folder of each server needs to be shared.

Select one of the following approaches depending on the expected rate of change (of artifacts) in your cluster:

For a high rate of changes (i.e., if changes happen very frequently), use Network File Share (NFS).
For a medium rate of change, use Remote Synchronization (Rsync).
For a low rate of changes (i.e., if changes happen once a week):
- Use the configuration management system to handle artifacts.
- Use other deployment options (e.g., Puppet, Chef etc.).

Be sure to choose the deployment synchronization method that suits your production environment.

You can use a common shared file system such as Network File System (NFS) or any other shared file system as the content synchronization mechanism. You need to mount the <EI_HOME>/repository/deployment/server folder of the two nodes to the shared file system to share all the artifacts between both nodes.

Using Remote Synchronization (Rsync)¶

If you are unable to maintain a shared file system, you can synchronize the content using Rsync. The Rsync tool (which is a file copying tool) is another common approach for synchronizing artifacts across all cluster nodes. Therefore, you can first deploy artifacts in one node of the cluster and then use Rsync to copy those artifacts to other nodes as described below.

Create a file called nodes-list.txt, which lists all the nodes in the deployment. The following is a sample of the file for two nodes.

Tip

Different nodes are separated into individual lines.
```
ubuntu@192.168.1.1:~/setup/192.168.1.1/ei_node/repository/deployment/server
ubuntu@192.168.1.2:~/setup/192.168.1.2/ei_node/repository/deployment/server
```

Create a file to synchronize the <EI_HOME>/repository/deployment/server/ directory between the nodes.

You must create your own SSH key and define it as the pem_file. Alternatively, you can use an existing SSH key. Specify the ei_server_dir depending on the location in your local machine. Change the logs.txt file path and the lock location based on where they are located in your machine.

Configure syncing the <EI_HOME>/repository/tenant/ directory to share the tenant artifacts across the cluster.

#!/bin/sh
ei_server_dir=~/wso2ei-6.6.0/repository/deployment/server/
pem_file=~/.ssh/carbon-440-test.pem


#delete the lock on exit
trap 'rm -rf /var/lock/depsync-lock' EXIT

mkdir /tmp/carbon-rsync-logs/

#keep a lock to stop parallel runs
if mkdir /var/lock/depsync-lock; then
  echo "Locking succeeded" >&2
else
  echo "Lock failed - exit" >&2
  exit 1
fi

#get the nodes-list.txt
pushd `dirname $0` > /dev/null
SCRIPTPATH=`pwd`
popd > /dev/null
echo $SCRIPTPATH

for x in `cat ${SCRIPTPATH}/nodes-list.txt`
do
echo ================================================== >> /tmp/carbon-rsync-logs/logs.txt;
echo Syncing $x;
rsync --delete -arve "ssh -i  $pem_file -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" $ei_server_dir $x >> /tmp/carbon-rsync-logs/logs.txt
echo ================================================== >> /tmp/carbon-rsync-logs/logs.txt;
done

Execute the following command in your CLI to create a Cron job that executes the above file every minute for deployment synchronization.
```
*   *  *   *   *     /home/ubuntu/setup/rsync-for-depsync/rsync-for-ei-depsync.sh=
```

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Deployment Synchronization¶

Using Network File Share (NFS)¶

Using Remote Synchronization (Rsync)¶