Keepalived 1.1.20 RPMs for CentOS 5

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Keepalived is a very handy piece of ops-sauce.  Dash some on your operations project and it adds a bit of tangy high availability and an aroma of robust fail-over.

It implements a VRRPv2 stack to handle LVS director failover and acts as a userspace daemon for LVS cluster nodes healthchecks and LVS directors failover.

While trying to reverse engineer how a previous co-worker setup a MySQL load balancing scheme using keepalived I discovered how difficult it was to find rpms for it (I found 1.1.10 out there).  I’ll be posting later on the MySQL HA scheme later.

I tried building the latest version (1.2.2) which continually broke in RHEL5 (despite there being a RHEL6 rpm)… so I gave in and built the latest version of the previous release (1.1.20).

Here we go…


Setup your rpm build environment.

 
sudo yum -y install rpmdevtools kernel-devel openssl-devel 
rpmdev-setuptree

Get it.

 
wget http://www.keepalived.org/software/keepalived-1.1.20.tar.gz \
   -O ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/keepalived-1.1.20.tar.gz
wget https://raw.github.com/nmilford/specfiles/master/keepalived-1.1/keepalived-1.1.spec \
   -O ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/keepalived-1.1.spec

Build it.

 
rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/keepalived-1.1.spec

Install it.

sudo rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/keepalived-1.1-1.1.20-1.x86_64.rpm

From here you can follow the keepalived tutorial.

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