One word: Idempotence.
If you have to do what you are asking, ur doin' it wrong.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Philip Brown
wrote:
> I've been poking around the web docs, and dont see an answer to this
> yet:
>
> Is there any pre-existing functionality in puppet, to allow limiting
> paralleli
Philip
There are a couple of ways:
If your clients run puppetd in daemon mode, then look in the client
configuration file at:
splay = true
splaylimit = 1800
We run our puppet clients as a wrapper from cron and make use of the
function which randomises a number based on fqdn (and other op
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 02:09:54PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote:
>
> Example:
> Lets say that I want all machines to run some sort of job, that
> updates a central database with information about the state of each
> puppet client.
>
> Lets also say, that I have 1000 machines, so if all of them decid
I've been poking around the web docs, and dont see an answer to this
yet:
Is there any pre-existing functionality in puppet, to allow limiting
parallelism?
Example:
Lets say that I want all machines to run some sort of job, that
updates a central database with information about the state of each
