[Gluster-users] ec2 elastic IPs

[Brian Cipriano]

Hey all -

Anyone running Gluster on AWS EC2 instances out there?

I'm having some issues using Gluster on EC2 instances. I saw an old 
thread titled "ec2 peers" but didn't see a solution posted as part of 
that thread.

Here's my problem -

If I stop/start a single EC2 instance, usually its internal DNS name and 
IP address change. This is a problem for my Gluster volume, which is 
using the instances' internal DNS names - all of a sudden a bunch of 
bricks in the volume aren't there - though they do still exist, they're 
EBS volumes and they're attached to the same instance. It's just that 
the instance has a different DNS name/ IP.

Any EC2+Gluster users out there who have found a solution to this? What 
do you do when the hostname of one of your servers changes?

I can't use replace-brick because the old instance isn't available at 
its old hostname.

I've tried assigning an Elastic IP and using that instead of internal 
DNS, but my first server is unable to see itself as a peer when 
identified by IP. I think Elastic IP is only accessible from outside the 
AWS networks.

I would really appreciate any thoughts on this. Thanks!

- brian