On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:59 AM, R P Herrold <herr...@owlriver.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>
>> How, if at all, do any of you do capacity planning with Puppet?
>
> somewhat orthogonal to the question, but after reading this piece:
>        http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2010-02/pdfs/bjorgeengen.pdf
> at
>        http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2010-02/index.html
>
> ... doing capacity planning for puppet presently may represent a 'premature
> optimization'

How is knowing how many clients your current infrastructure supports a
premature optimization?

Although that pdf is in 'teal', it doesn't actually appear to be
available without a usenix login, which I don't have.

>
> The seeming speed and scaling differences between CFengine and puppet are
> dramatic, and one has to ask if puppet is the right tool to bet on, in its
> present form

The default configurations of the two are radically different.

There's nothing stopping you mimicking a CFengine style setup with
puppet. Set up an rsync server, have your clients fetch the manifests
and compile them locally.

We've considered it several times for performance reasons, but I'd
like to avoid exposing the raw manifests to my clients, even if you
fake out environments by setting different rsync sources.


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