I was going back and forth on this and I have to agree with John. There have been several times where I pushed out a lightweight Puppet server on a VM running 512M RAM, 1 CPU, just to try something in a 'production-like' scenario.
I'm OK with losing Rack support, but a lightweight server instance is great for testing. Trevor On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:01 PM, John Bollinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 10:30:47 PM UTC-6, Eric Sorenson wrote: > > My hypothesis is if you're just dipping a toe in the water to try out >> Puppet, running standalone with `puppet apply` is probably going to work >> better than a webrick agent/server setup. >> >> > > I'm doubtful of the validity of that hypothesis. The use cases for > `puppet apply` tend to be different from the use cases for agent / master. > If I wanted to try out Puppet for a scenario in which agent / master was > the appropriate choice, or especially if the agent / master setup itself > were part of what I wanted to evaluate, then `puppet apply` would simply > not be a good alternative. > > As light-duty as webrick may be, it has the virtue of being extremely easy > get up and running. I'm not specially tied to webrick itself, but I think > Puppet benefits from having a lightweight, out-of-the-box server option. > > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/d9061cc6-93a8-40fd-8572-d4fdfc9170cf%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/d9061cc6-93a8-40fd-8572-d4fdfc9170cf%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 [email protected] -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANs%2BFoWjOt7UXAd%3DXqUOS-x84WdkeSnjV0ixhOcXJyVRVZReYQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
