On 03/10/2010 08:39 AM, Tim Stoop wrote: > Although the idea is cool and I'd love to see the module once you have > created it, I doubt this is something you really want to do with > puppet. I see puppet more as a "this is what my machine should look > like" kinda tool. Pushing data for several hours really shouldn't be > part of that, I think. I can imagine it triggering a script in the > background that fetches like the daily backup from a server and builds > the slave the next time puppet runs and it detects the download being > completed, though. But that would still give you puppet errors for > several hours (dependencies not being satisfied), which would indicate > to me it's not the right tool for the job. But maybe that's just me.
That's kinda my impression as well. The manifests would have to be carefully crafted for "if this is here, do this now" which is going to be very trick across systems. I haven't used Capistrano yet, but would a tool like that be better suited for this type of job? -Doug
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