Brice Figureau wrote: > On 26/03/09 1:56, Ben wrote: > >> I use, and depend on, puppet extensively and a good portion of the >> servers (nodes) are remote, across a WAN. >> >> 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? >> > > No, see below. > > >> 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? >> > > Puppet uses Net::HTTP on the client to connect to the puppetmaster. This > is a part of the standard Ruby lib, and only in version 1.9 did they add > content encoding Gzip support: > http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/repositories/revision/ruby-19?rev=14187 > > So if you run your clients with ruby 1.9, then I think you can activate > content-encoding compression in nginx. > > I doubt Luke would agree implementing the compression in the puppet > layer of the protocol, because all the transfer use HTTP (especially > when we'll move to a full REST system) and HTTP supports > content-encoding since at least a decade. > Now one solution to have compression in the client while running an > older ruby interpreter version would be to dump Net::HTTP which is > horribly slow and start using something "newer" (or simply better designed). > So are you saying that clients running ruby 1.9 would support HTTP compression now without modifications to puppet?
All my clients are RHEL and CentOS so i do not see ruby 1.9 being available for them until the next major release, i.e. 6. A solution before then would be helpful. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
