On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Crawford Kyle wrote: > > > On Feb 5, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> So we've been tossing around the idea of rsyncing our puppet >> manifests >> onto our laptop clients and always running puppet locally. >> >> This is primarily due to having conditional puppet manifests that >> depend upon facts that may change when the clients are offline, so >> the >> compiled catalog doesn't change until the clients can connect to the >> puppetmaster(s) again. >> >> On the assumption that exposing the puppet manifests themselves to >> the >> clients doesn't create any security issues, I'm interested in >> people's >> thoughts on the advantages of having a puppetmaster for a laptop >> client base. > > I'm thinking that you'll lose reporting and manifest delivery.
Reporting works fine when using 'puppet'. > > On the other hand, delivery isn't that hard. And puppet reporting > seems pretty bare-bones out of the box anyway. > > This may be a good way to more easily integrate puppet into an > existing management solution that already handles delivery and > reporting rather than integrate all that into puppet server. So this > sounds appealing to me. > > Will puppet standalone continue to be supported as a first class > citizen? Always. I'm entirely committed to supporting both the client/server and the stand-alone architectures. -- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Sir Winston Churchill --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
