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Scott Smith wrote:
> berber wrote:
>> Puppet runs every hour or so on our production servers and makes sure
>> they stick to the manifest. I'm curious to know if this is advised for
>> production.
>>
>> In theory, if something breaks in puppet for whatever reason, all of
>> our production servers may be hurt simultaneously.
>>
> 
> 1) Don't disable using the cached catalog in case of failure
> 2) Treat your Puppet deployments like software deployments. STAGE THEM!!

Puppet makes managing configuration easier and more automated - it
doesn't preclude change control, testing and work flow. :)

In fact using Puppet without these can sometimes be downright dangerous.

Regards

James Turnbull

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