On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Stephen Gran <stephen.g...@guardian.co.uk> wrote: > Your push server can run git update and then rsync to the masters.
Why rsync if you have git? You have - the machine(s) where you edit and make commits on git, you then _git push_ to what I'll call a "gold" git server - the gold git server, normally it answers requests, but in Alex's company it would run a cron to push to essentially local mirrors in their various networks. - "local puppet masters" -- given that you are using push from the gold server to the "local puppet masters", you can use a post-receive hook to auto-checkout the update as part of the push. so as soon as the push completes, the puppet server code is serving the new files... - puppet clients that pull from their local puppet masters. -- if you use rsync, you have a potentially large window of time during which the tree of files is inconsistent on the local puppet masters -- larger if the network connection is slow or unreliable. rsync updates each file atomically, but not the tree atomically. Using git shrinks that window considerably -- but not completely. I am currently working on a similar infra, but local puppet masters are allowed to "git fetch" from the gold server. The tooling I've developed around it is here http://repo.or.cz/w/puppet-git.git/ with some discussion of usage and design here https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/puppet-users/OilxMytnD_k cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first ~ http://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Martin_Langhoff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
