I would suggest to have an option to enable/disable it per client, as my puppetmasters are low on cpu...(e.g. too many clients ;)) did you file a feature request for it?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Ben <abnormal...@clivepeeters.com.au>wrote: > > Larry Ludwig wrote: > > Hmm interesting idea. > > > > While the puppetmaster will work without issue, the issue becomes the > > client (puppetd) must decode it. > > > > I suspect a code change. > > > > -L > > > > > > On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Ben wrote: > > > > > >> I just started a WAN Optimization trial with some Juniper gear, one of > >> the components of WAN optimization is compression and the puppet > >> client/server communication is compressing pretty well. According to > >> the Juniper reporting the puppet data is being compressed between > >> 25-50%. > >> > >> > >> Is puppet using compression between client and server? > >> > >> If it is not, has it been considered? Considering most of the data > >> exchanged between client and server would be text in the form of > >> manifests and config files i think it could achieve good compression > >> with low overhead. > >> > >> I have nginx in front of my puppetmasters, if i enable gzip > >> compression > >> there will the puppet client still work? > >> > > > If you were going to make code changes in the client you may as well > implement compression into puppet itself as a whole. In other words do > not implement it at the "nginx" level for example but have puppetmaster > and fileserver compress it's data using Zlib::GzipWriter and > Zlib::GzipReader before serving it to the client and the client can use > the same to do the reverse. > > This way a simple puppet.conf option would enable or disable compression > in any deployment even without a more complicated configuration using > "nginx", "apache" or whatever. > > Ben > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
