What do you call a cluster of rabbits?

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What makes a cluster

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Due to hitting a limit on number of VMs in the subscription, Dev has been created as 2 nodes (1 commented out). As per “What makes a cluster”, this is potentially worse than having a single node. 💽
Configuration seems to be ‘all by one method’. I initially tried maintaining the user & vhost environment variables but these were ignored; giving preference to the config file in which I had only defined the cluster discovery mechanism. 🐰
Erlang cookie file: I left it as an environment variable because of the extra settings required it is a security parameter rather than ‘configuration’ as above. 🐰
Terraform seems to install docker but doesn’t have the docker group so fails to add the heetis user. This is rectified by the docker-upgrade.yml playbook. 🐳
Ansible ‘role’ playbooks; these seemed to be doing more than I could deduce from the playbooks, inc. copying files as directories. I resorted to using the config directory that is created irrespective of need. 📁

TODO

The ansible playbooks need to be modified to remove exclusions for the IP addresses used (already configured in the ‘hosts’ inventory).

‘Burstable’ seems like a good model but I only used this as because that is what was configured already.

Mount point, size & required throughput (data/s & IOPS).
Iterating over a VM ‘base module' in terraform
Generate the erlang cookie file at deploy time (using ansible?) and set permissions as 600.

It seems cleaner for Liban’s stage cluster (rabbitmq-cluster-server-[1-3] in terraform/stage/) to be destroyed.
Creating new environments should be simplified by the use of the rabbitmq-cluster module which sits in the DEVOPS repo under terraform/common/.