On Apr 1, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Kyle Cordes wrote:
>
> Ohad Levy wrote:
>> puppetrun, and as we don't run puppetd as a daemon (running it from
>> cron
>> due to large memory consumption while idle), I went forward and
>
> Here is a semi-related thought.
>
> Without regard for memory consumption, but rather due to the notion
> that
> system-wide, manageable, canonical mechanisms are better than
> app-specific mechanisms, I would prefer that Puppet did not have a
> daemon mode, scheduler, sleep-N-minutes mechanism etc., at all; but
> rather that the Puppet install process set it up in cron. Of course I
> can set it up that way myself, but what I wish was that Puppet didn't
> carry the burden of its own mechanism: no code for it, no command line
> options, no init.d script, no wiki pages about it, no discussion of
> it, etc.
The code around being a daemon is a very, very small amount of code,
especially given that the server needs to be a daemon anyway.
And I have to admit that the reasons for puppetd being a daemon are
less valid than I'd hoped - in particular, the 'resource' API is
powerful and potentially really useful, with the right central tools.
I do hope we'll be making them more valid and more useful in the next
year or so, but I have lots of hopes and not enough time for them all.
In the meantime, it's easy enough to skip the daemon mode.
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