[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA state - performace, commercial usage

[Janelle]

I would have to throw  in a comment. As someone who has a 16 server 
cluster with 10,000+ clients and growing, the hardest part is having to 
tune dirsrv on each and every server. Beyond that, the rest  is pretty 
solid.  Perhaps in the 5.x series they would consider adding a way to 
tune the primary dirsrv at installation time, and have it copy that 
config via ipa-replica-install or similar.

~Janelle

On 8/21/15 4:44 AM, Loris Santamaria wrote:
> Hi, FWIW one of our customers (a bank) uses freeIPA 3.0 + samba with 4
> servers and 5000+ clients, with no major issues. We were able to solve
> every issue they had tuning the dirsrv or with help from this list.
>
> Best regards
>
>
> El vie, 21-08-2015 a las 04:44 +0200, Vaclav Adamec escribió:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Don't want to start flame, but my question is quite simple, is there
>> anybody who use it in real production/commercial setup without any
>> major issues ? don't you lack commercial support ? no issues with
>> auditors ?
>>
>>   after a year/two of usage/testing/troubleshooting of freeipa/redhat
>> ipa it seems, for me as a simple admin, to be still not very mature
>> project, even basic configuration isn't very stable/solid to use it
>> in
>> real production. I started with latest freeipa on fedora with one
>> server (VM vmware), then add other master replicas but after many
>> issues I carefully keep one server on redhat 7 with up2date version
>> of
>> ipa from rhel repos, default installation setup, no replication. But
>> still with stability issue (processes died occasionally, mostly due
>> multiple clients removing, sometimes it dies completely with cryptic
>> errors in journal (but sometimes no errors at all just wait for
>> something during restart) and only fast option is restore from
>> snaphot
>> backups with loosing some clients). Performance is also issue, we
>> cannot register more then 4-5 servers at once, or it will timeout
>> (but
>> no visible network or cpu/mem load issue).
>>
>> As there are no other complex solutions like IPA it's quite hard
>> decide what to use as a replacement, but right now it's seems that we
>> have no other option and we probably switch to simple openldap and
>> missing functionality cover by puppet and some 2factor solution.
>>
>> We don't need anything special, no dns handling, no certificates, no
>> AD connection, just simple servers/clients, users with groups and
>> rules for access/sudo. Multimaster (with DNS SRV) solution for higher
>> performance and reliability would be nice, but not necessary if we
>> can
>> keep it stable and handle more clients registration. We have tens of
>> users/groups, hundreds servers/clients with random registration
>> "burst" as we use it also for temp. build environments and OpenStack
>> instances.
>>
>> Oficial support from RedHat is not very helpful, also they don't
>> provide any real training for IPA, so only option is mail conference
>> (very helpful, thanks for that) and tones of documentation/examples
>> for variety of versions, but for such complex thing probably not
>> enough for commercial use.
>>
>> Can I ask you for your opinion ?
>>
>> Vasek
>>
>>
>>

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