Re: cfengine and eventual consistency

2010-05-04 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Mon, 3 May 2010 22:34:02 -0400 Wes Rogers wrote: WR> 2010/5/3 Ted Zlatanov : >> On Mon, 3 May 2010 15:07:43 -0400 Wes Rogers wrote: >> WR> Seems like too much effort to me, IMO when I can just add another WR> 'cfservd server' behind my LB VIP and call it a day. >> >> You still need a way t

Re: cfengine and eventual consistency

2010-05-03 Thread Wes Rogers
For us, our policy gets refreshed every hour from SVN on all "servers" (or whenever manually). Wes 2010/5/3 Ted Zlatanov : > On Mon, 3 May 2010 15:07:43 -0400 Wes Rogers wrote: > > WR> Seems like too much effort to me, IMO when I can just add another > WR> 'cfservd server' behind my LB VIP and c

Re: cfengine and eventual consistency

2010-05-03 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Mon, 3 May 2010 15:07:43 -0400 Wes Rogers wrote: WR> Seems like too much effort to me, IMO when I can just add another WR> 'cfservd server' behind my LB VIP and call it a day. You still need a way to propagate policy between multiple cfservd servers. What happens when one of them is offline

Re: cfengine and eventual consistency (was: Super-scaled cfengine server?)

2010-05-03 Thread Wes Rogers
Seems like too much effort to me, IMO when I can just add another 'cfservd server' behind my LB VIP and call it a day. Some organizations which have different groups managing multiple sets of configs would have a harder time doing that but.. Wes 2010/5/2 Ted Zlatanov : > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:3

cfengine and eventual consistency (was: Super-scaled cfengine server?)

2010-05-02 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:30:28 -0500 Paul Krizak wrote: PK> The main thing I'm asking is if anybody has had any experience scaling PK> up a cfservd to this much work, and whether or not it fell over. ... PK> I'm talking about 5,000 systems each updating about 50MB of policy data PK> over a 1-2 h