On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:53:03PM -0400, markbergman...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm beginning to use Puppet, and I'm looking for suggestions for the > best way to have 'puppet agent' run very frequently during the initial > deployment phase on a new server. > > In our environment, there's one local puppet module that's called in the > 'post' stage. This module essentially depends on all other services and > local configurations on the server. > > Reaching that stage on a newly deployed server takes serveral iterations > of 'puppet agent'.
Before figuring out how to shorten the initial agent runs, I'd inquire why a full configuration takes several agent runs. It would be pretty easy to build a host where puppet runs as a daemon with runinterval=60, and when puppet configures the host it stops its daemon process and sets itself to run via cron, but that gets odd if it takes several agent runs to get the host going. > Each client calls the puppet agent as a cron job, every 30 minutes. That's > fine after machine is fully configured, but means that there's a long > interval between kickstarting a new machine and having it reach a > usable state. > > Essentially, I'd like the calls to 'puppet agent' to loop continuously > (with a very short pause) until classes in the 'post' stage have met > their requirements and executed once, at which time the server is fully > configured and puppet can be run at the normal 30-minute interval. > > Any suggestions? If you have some way of populating an "everything is done" file, you can have a custom fact read that file and report true/false. If true, puppet's cron job will be every 30 minutes, and if false, the cron job happens every minute. http://docs.puppetlabs.com/facter/2.1/custom_facts.html if str2bool($::donefact) { $minute = '*' } else { $minute = '30' } cron { 'puppet': minute => $minute, command => '/usr/sbin/puppet agent --onetime', } (Off the top of my head untested suggestion.) > Thanks, > > Mark > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/9989-1406566383.024520%40NNlb.KxuX.QQYv. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20140728192004.GA30396%40iniquitous.heresiarch.ca. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
