On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks Chris, this is both helpful and reassuring.
>
> DOCUMENT-389 for fake Internet points.
>

42 fake internet points awarded; thank you!



>
> Trevor
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Chris Price <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Nan Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 7:06:42 PM UTC-7, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So, we ran across this one today and I dug up the thread where Felix
>>>> Frank, John Bolinger, and I all agreed (https://goo.gl/LQ20bj) that
>>>> there were solid use cases for keeping the Webrick version of Puppet 
>>>> around.
>>>>
>>>> We were all fine with losing Rack support but, as of right now, I do
>>>> not know how to debug the internals of the server-side Ruby code within the
>>>> Clojure stack.
>>>>
>>>> As far as I can tell, I can't do the following in Puppet Server:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Stuff Pry into the middle of the stack and interact with it so that
>>>> you can inspect the internal state of the Puppet Master process while
>>>> testing custom types, functions, and providers.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  The documentation for using pry is here:
>>> https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-server/blob/master/documentation/dev_debugging.markdown
>>>
>>> 2) Easily debug the *server* portions of the Ruby code
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, I wish there's a wrapper similar to puppet master --compile for
>>> the puppet-server stack. The example I got from support doesn't work and I
>>> haven't chased down the issue yet, maybe it works for other people:
>>>
>>> /opt/puppet/bin/java -cp
>>> /opt/puppet/share/puppetserver/puppet-server-release.jar org.jruby.Main
>>> -I/opt/puppet/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1 /opt/puppet/bin/puppet master
>>> --compile <certname> --trace
>>> WARNING: unimplemented method called: request#signature_algorithm
>>> Error: Could not prepare for execution: Unknown signature algorithm ''
>>>
>>
>> FWIW there is now a 'puppetserver ruby' command, that should effectively
>> be the equivalent of running 'ruby' from the CLI, but it'll run things
>> using the built-in Puppet Server JRuby.  So you should be able to do
>> 'puppetserver ruby /opt/puppet/bin/blah'.
>>
>>>
>>> 3) Spin up a lightweight Puppet server instance for trying/debugging
>>>> some code on a laptop of limited resources
>>>>
>>>> Looking over PUP-4435, I don't see any indication as to exactly *why*
>>>> we can't keep Webrick support or how to do the three items above.
>>>>
>>>> Digging into the referred ticket of PUP-4394, it seems like it would be
>>>> relatively easy to either gracefully bail if the puppet user/group don't
>>>> exist or, alternatively, to create them as an option.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, throw all sorts of "don't use this in production" warnings, but I
>>>> need to know how to do the three things above prior to losing Webrick
>>>> support because the code in 'puppet apply' doesn't work the same way as the
>>>> puppet server compiler in all cases.
>>>>
>>>
>>> puppet-server doesn't always behave the same as the ruby server code, so
>>> I don't know if it's actually helpful. A few issues I run into are around
>>> https connection (due to jruby) and environment variable preservation
>>> (SERVER-584) that only occur with the puppet-server stack. I would agree a
>>> few debugging examples in the documentation target at ruby v.s. closure
>>> code would be really helpful since we are poking at code three layers deep.
>>>
>>
>> I am definitely willing to write up some more docs (and also advocate
>> w/in PL to get some dev time to spend on filing a few PRs to pry-related
>> projects to improve their JRuby compatibility).  Would any of you be
>> willing to create a Jira ticket that describes what sort of example would
>> be the most useful to you?  I will make sure it gets prioritized, at the
>> *very* least before webrick support is removed.
>>
>> To Trevor's question of why webrick support will be removed: it's mostly
>> that we intend to move a lot more of the network/HTTP parts of the logic
>> into pure Clojure and it's very expensive and complicated for us to
>> maintain both Ruby and Clojure versions of the code; so there will
>> necessarily be code deleted from the Puppet ruby codebase that would be
>> required in order to run under webrick.
>>
>> As to the question about running Puppet Server on a laptop--we do this in
>> dev all the time, so if you're running into any hardware / resource issues
>> that are causing you trouble, I would love to hear more details so that we
>> can look into it.
>>
>> That said, I definitely don't take these concerns lightly and will work
>> really hard to make sure that we've addressed them as completely as
>> possible prior to the switch-over.  Please keep bringing the concerns to
>> our attention, and bonus points for filing Jira tickets around individual
>> items that you want to make sure we cover.
>>
>>
>>
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