Question: Can you run a Fortune 500 Drupal 8 website from your basement, on a cluster of Raspberry Pi computers?
Answer: See this presentation to find out! Jeff Geerling is the author of Ansible for DevOps and a Technical Architect at Acquia, who has worked on many large and small scale Drupal websites.
Streamlining Your Application Builds with Cloud Native Buildpacks
Highly available Drupal on a Raspberry Pi cluster
1. Highly Available Drupal
on a Raspberry Pi Cluster
Jeff Geerling, php[tek] 2016
(geerlingguy)
http://www.shockinglydelicious.com/dorothys-fresh-raspberry-pie-recipe/
12. Problems with one Pi
• No redundancy
• microSD card reliability
• No database backup
13. Problems with one Pi
• No redundancy
• microSD card reliability
• No database backup
• Limited resources
14. • No redundancy
• microSD card reliability
• No database backup
• Limited resources
High Availability
Single Pi Multi Pi
15. • Easy redundancy• No redundancy
• microSD card reliability
• No database backup
• Limited resources
High Availability
Single Pi Multi Pi
16. • Easy redundancy
• Can hot-swap a Pi
• No redundancy
• microSD card reliability
• No database backup
• Limited resources
High Availability
Single Pi Multi Pi
17. • Easy redundancy
• Can hot-swap a Pi
• Hot database backup
• No redundancy
• microSD card reliability
• No database backup
• Limited resources
High Availability
Single Pi Multi Pi
18. • Easy redundancy
• Can hot-swap a Pi
• Hot database backup
• Each server optimized
• No redundancy
• microSD card reliability
• No database backup
• Limited resources
High Availability
Single Pi Multi Pi