On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Erik Dalén <erik.gustav.da...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 14 May 2012 18:35, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Alex Harvey <alexharv...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi list, > >> > >> I am looking at configuration management tool options. > >> > >> I have a large fleet (> 3,000 hosts) and highly heterogeneous > >> (RHEL3-5, CentOS, 5RH7, Solaris 10 LDOMs/zones, Solaris 8-9, AIX 5.3 & > >> 6.1 LPARs, HP-UX & Tru64 + Windows). We care mainly about RHEL and > >> new versions of Solaris & AIX but ability to compile on older versions > >> is an advantage. Probably, the Windows will be managed by SCCM. > >> > >> I have read that Puppet could have scalability problems to a site as > >> large as ours. To keep this simple, I'd like feedback on whether that > >> is likely to be true for us. > >> > >> A rep from CFengine has told me that ours would be the largest Puppet > >> site in the world (I think that's not true). Could someone confirm? > > > > > > There are at least a couple of deployments that are more like 30k hosts > than > > 3k.... > > > > It's absolutely not true. > > > > However, storeconfigs does have some scalability issues, so I guess > that they aren't using that feature with 30k hosts? > > (soon there is of course the puppetdb that should replace it and be > more scalable afaik) > > Let me firm that up a bit :) PuppetDB *does* replace the existing storeconfigs, and *is* much more scalable :) -- Nigel Kersten | http://puppetlabs.com | @nigelkersten Schedule Meetings at: http://tungle.me/nigelkersten -- 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.
