Re: [Puppet Users] capacity planning with puppet.

2010-02-18 Thread Carl Caum
Any way you can share that PDF? The main page suggests it's supposed to be public anyway so I'm assuming the required login is a mistake. When you looked at deploying your puppet modules to the clients and getting rid of the puppetmaster model, did you consider only syncing only the modules the

Re: [Puppet Users] capacity planning with puppet.

2010-02-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Trevor Vaughan wrote: > This is true and, unfortunately, I couldn't get to the presentation either. I got to read a copy over the shoulder of someone here with a login. I thought it was pretty skimpy really, and didn't really adequately cover the advantages of ei

[Puppet Users] capacity planning with puppet.

2010-02-18 Thread Steven VanDevender
R P Herrold writes: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > How, if at all, do any of you do capacity planning with Puppet? > > somewhat orthogonal to the question, but after reading this > piece: > http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2010-02/pdfs/bjorgeengen.pdf > at

Re: [Puppet Users] capacity planning with puppet.

2010-02-18 Thread Trevor Vaughan
This is true and, unfortunately, I couldn't get to the presentation either. It's pretty well known that, given any two similar systems, the one written in a lower level language will probably always win in terms of speed and resource usage and lose in terms of community extensibility. It all come

Re: [Puppet Users] capacity planning with puppet.

2010-02-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:59 AM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> How, if at all, do any of you do capacity planning with Puppet? > > somewhat orthogonal to the question, but after reading this piece: >        http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2010-02/pdfs

[Puppet Users] capacity planning with puppet.

2010-02-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Nigel Kersten wrote: How, if at all, do any of you do capacity planning with Puppet? somewhat orthogonal to the question, but after reading this piece: http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2010-02/pdfs/bjorgeengen.pdf at http://www.usenix.org/publicat

[Puppet Users] capacity planning with puppet.

2010-02-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
+puppet-users, puppet-dev to catch the developer-y folks too. How, if at all, do any of you do capacity planning with Puppet? I've worked out a snippet of ruby code that will take the cached fact data from the servers, and use that to issue a bunch of catalog retrieval requests. I ended up modif