Re: [Puppet Users] Scaling of Puppet masters

2014-05-19 Thread Cory Stoker
I can weigh in a little on this... As far as scalability of the puppet masters, it can be variable depending on what kind of puppet code you are running. The largest item that can ruin scalability is long catalog compilation time. Another thing is run interval. Current at my workplace we run a p

Re: [Puppet Users] Scaling of Puppet masters

2014-05-19 Thread Jerald Sheets
On May 19, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Peter Berghold wrote: > Second: is there a way to use a load balancer in front of a bank of Puppet > masters and keep the reports in sync? PuppetDB eliminates this need for you, and you can scale at the PostGres layer instead. Have a peek at PuppetDB. It’s a de

[Puppet Users] Scaling of Puppet masters

2014-05-19 Thread Peter Berghold
Folks, I am in the midst of creating a deployment guide for a client that I am working with for the use of Puppet in their environment. The company is big enough that even though the company as a whole uses Puppet already (it's even on the Puppet web site) the local teams I am working with have no