Burkholder, Peter wrote: > I just finished listening to the Configuration Management panel from > OSBridge (on blip.tv). > > Near the end of it, Adam Jacob states that Puppet's resource dependency > ordering is non-deterministic, > and that manifests that work fine 19 times will fail the 20th time. > > Is this true? I'm puzzled that what Luke considers one of Puppet's > strong suits is derided by > others as its Achille's heel.
Puppet's ordering of how it'll apply resources is only deterministic up to the specified dependencies in the manifest. Not requiring more determinism allows puppet to optimize resource application (in the future; see e.g. the thread about coalescing package installations). Of course, this might allow situations like those Adam talks about if the manifest doesn't state all the implicit dependencies explicitly. Like trying to start a service before the daemon is installed. Regards, DavidS --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
