Commit a9f7ce47 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'doc/sentinel' of gitlab.com:gitlab-org/gitlab-ce into doc/sentinel

parents 95f6cf33 850405b4
......@@ -7,19 +7,10 @@ highly available.
## Architecture
### Active/Passive
For pure high-availability/failover with no scaling you can use an
active/passive configuration. This utilizes DRBD (Distributed Replicated
Block Device) to keep all data in sync. DRBD requires a low latency link to
remain in sync. It is not advisable to attempt to run DRBD between data centers
or in different cloud availability zones.
There are two kinds of setups:
Components/Servers Required:
- 2 servers/virtual machines (one active/one passive)
![Active/Passive HA Diagram](../img/high_availability/active-passive-diagram.png)
- active/active
- active/passive
### Active/Active
......@@ -28,12 +19,24 @@ user requests simultaneously. The database, Redis, and GitLab application are
all deployed on separate servers. The configuration is **only** highly-available
if the database, Redis and storage are also configured as such.
![Active/Active HA Diagram](../img/high_availability/active-active-diagram.png)
**Steps to configure active/active:**
Follow the steps below to configure an active/active setup:
1. [Configure the database](database.md)
1. [Configure Redis](redis.md)
1. [Configure NFS](nfs.md)
1. [Configure the GitLab application servers](gitlab.md)
1. [Configure the load balancers](load_balancer.md)
![Active/Active HA Diagram](../img/high_availability/active-active-diagram.png)
### Active/Passive
For pure high-availability/failover with no scaling you can use an
active/passive configuration. This utilizes DRBD (Distributed Replicated
Block Device) to keep all data in sync. DRBD requires a low latency link to
remain in sync. It is not advisable to attempt to run DRBD between data centers
or in different cloud availability zones.
Components/Servers Required: 2 servers/virtual machines (one active/one passive)
![Active/Passive HA Diagram](../img/high_availability/active-passive-diagram.png)
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