Hi all, I've been looking into having Puppet deploy some larger files and I'm noticing that it ties up puppetmasters quite a bit and can often result in a timeout if the file is too large. Before I submit a feature request for a http method for file sources, I would throw it out to the group and see if anyone had any thoughts on it.
Possible benefits of a HTTP source could be shifting some filefile serverd from Puppet on larger installs (especially useful if you need to deploy larger files like packages). Another possible benefit could be the ability to generate files using sources external to Puppet - ie. cgi script on remote server generates config file (yes, I know you could do it with a template, but maybe this isn't good in all cases...) The main question would be in terms of how to detect file changes without a full transfer - HTTP does provide some mechanisms for checking this, but I'm not sure if they would be adequate if scripting responses through HTTP... My main reason for wanting this is to allow me to deploy files through firewalls where NFS is not possible (ie. DMZ) and Puppet is not able to keep up... For those wanting the specific example, I'm deploying Sun Explorer through the install_stb.sh file (30+ Mb.) then executing it to install the packages. The install file fails to download when using "puppet:/// explorer/install_stb.sh" as a source as it takes too long and Puppet chops it off as a timeout. Yes, I know I can do it through a package resource, but the SUNWsneep component won't install then - running "pkgadd -d http://server/SUNWsneep.pkg -a adminfile -r responsefile" does not work - pkgadd refuses to do a response file with a http datastream. So what does everyone think? Is a HTTP source for files feasable? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
