ipswitch
ipswitch is a tool to migrate IP addresses on the fly to another host without downtime.
It connects to the hosts via SSH and uses the "ip" command to add/remove IP addresses. For IPv4, it then uses arping to notify other hosts about the IP change.
I use this tool when doing maintenance tasks on e.g. application servers, as well as managing shared master IPs for database failover setups.
This tool was build to maintain IP addresses in a backnet. Keep in mind, that if you take away the IP you are using for your SSH connection, there might be unexpected results
Installation
$ gem install ipswitch
Usage
Migrate IP address from one host to another
$ ipswitch migrate maintenance.node failover.node
maintenance.node: Getting IP for interface eth0
maintenance.node: Found IP 192.168.1.2/24
failover.node: Adding IP address 192.168.1.2/24 to interface eth0
failover.node: Running arpping
failover.node: 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% unanswered (0 extra)
maintenance.node: Removing IP address 192.168.1.2/24 from interface eth0
Note: ipswitch automatically detects and uses the (primary) IP of the specified interface (default: eth0)
After the maintenance, migrate it back to the original host
$ ipswitch migrate failover.node maintenance.node --ip 192.168.1.2/24
maintenance.node: Adding IP address 192.168.1.2/24 to interface eth0
maintenance.node: Running arpping
maintenance.node: 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% unanswered (0 extra)
failover.node: Removing IP address 192.168.1.2/24 from interface eth0
Note: As eth0 now has two IP addresses, you need to specify which once to migrate. If the original node reclaimed the IP automatically (e.g. due to a reboot), ipswitch still works.
You can also use ipswitch to just add/remove IP addresses from your nodes
$ ipswitch add --ip 192.168.1.1/24 yourappserver.node
$ ipswitch del --ip 192.168.1.1/24 yourappserver.node
Assign an IP to an interface other than eth0 and do not use arping to broadcast IP
$ ipswitch add --interface eth1 --ip 192.168.1.1/24 --no-broadcast yourappserver.node
Managing IPv6 addresses is also possible
$ ipswitch add --family inet6 --ip fe80::abcd:66ff:fede:9999 yourappserver.node
$ ipswitch del --family inet6 --ip fe80::abcd:66ff:fede:9999 yourappserver.node
Hint: Use --dryrun to see what's going to happen without actually doing anything
Options
[--user=USER] # ssh username
# Default: root
[--port=N] # ssh port
# Default: 22
[--interface=INTERFACE] # interface name
# Default: eth0
[--family=FAMILY] # protocol family [inet|inet6]
# Default: inet
[--ip=IP] # IP address to remove/add/migrate
[--broadcast] # use arping to broadcast new IP (IPv4 only)
# Default: true
[--count=N] # number of broadcasts to send
# Default: 3
[--debug] # talk a lot while running
[--dryrun] # do not actually perform anything
Caveats
Currently only works when using SSH keys for authenticating at your hosts.
The following features are planned
- Password support
- SOCKS proxy support)
- Ability to specify SSH keyfile
- Support for sudo
Contributing
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request