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Django project template for startproject (Requires 2.2+)
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Restart the minion anytime we need it #246

Open vkurup opened 8 years ago

vkurup commented 8 years ago

On edutrac today, deploys failed without much feedback. It turned out that the salt-minion had died. Restarting the minion allowed the deploy to succeed. I have definitely seen this on other projects, and we have solved it in some projects by restarting the salt-minion as the first step of any deploy.

Given how confusing this failure is (since there's no feedback), I propose to restart the salt-minion during every deploy, but would also be interested in other suggestions.

mlavin commented 8 years ago

Agree this is a problem but this could get messy for larger deploys. Restarting the minion means the fabfile knows where all of the minions are because you can't restart the minion via the salt master (can you?).

vkurup commented 8 years ago

Hmm... good point. I just spent way too much time looking at https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/7997 and https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/5721, so I see that a general solution for a multi-server setup might be tricky