On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:51:28AM -0800, bel wrote:
> I see that there's a thread from September asking a very similar
> question ("Official puppetlabs position on cron vs puppet as a
> service?"). I want to ask what should I take into account when making
> this decision?
>
> Just some background:
>
> - All my servers are Red Hat or CentOS
> - We have about 5 servers managed by Puppet now. The goal is to have
> ~50 servers.
>
> These are generally bastion xen guests . A lot of them have minimal
> amount of RAM--sometimes the minimum recommended by the application.
>
> Any recommendations? My initial thought:
Only that you have your puppet setup also managed by puppet. (Obviously there's
a bootstrap issue to work with, but smooth sailing thereafter.)
> 1. Run `puppet agent --onetime` every 30 minutes on agents
Definitely use fdqn_rand (see the function list) in the cron job minutes to
spread these out.
> 2. Run `service puppetmaster restart` on the master every 12 hours.
I've personally never needed to do this. Now I'm nosy about puppetmaster uptime.
> TIA.
>
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