Jason- Stay tuned for an announcement of a USENIX "Configuration Management Summit - Virtualization, the cloud, and scale" being help in Boston in June. Your opinions and ideas would be extremely welcome there!
-Dan Klein On Apr 13, 2012, at 7:48 PM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: CFEngine Help > Subject: Can CFEngine 3 scale to support a 1 million + Enterprise? > Author: jsabowabo > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25558,25558#msg-25558 > > I've done a fair amount of reading on CFEngine 3, and I see references that > it can scale, but I don't see how it can scale into the 100,000 + range. > > Can CFEngine 3 support a distributed enterprise (Like the U.S. Army) with > upwards of 1,000,000 nodes? As you may know the Army currently uses MS SCCM, > and I'm looking at alternatives as part of my thesis work. > > One of my specific concerns with scalablity is the capacity of each Hub, > which seems to be around 2,000 clients. Another concern is the promise.cf > file, which it seems would have to maintained separately for each major > organization. > > Another concern is reporting. Can this product really do rollup reporting > for 1 million clients and servers? > > The demo I watched seemed scalable for a few thousand nodes, not hundreds of > thousands. What am I missing? > > Thanks > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
