Re: Facts load by puppet -factsync question

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41 server under puppet today

Hello there.

  Just to let you know i have just put in production mode puppet on 41 
freeBSD 4.7 virtual servers (yes not real servers but "jailed ones"). I 
had some little problems with facter at first but i have manualy  
upgraded the servers that where affected by the little "facter does not 
read his facts" problem i had. I should have missed something in my 
deploiement.

  All was fine except some server with very slow responses. Perhaps this 
is why facter had some issue:

notice: Finished configuration run in 1171.60 seconds
notice: Finished configuration run in 1905.57 seconds
notice: Finished configuration run in 1843.25 seconds
notice: Finished configuration run in 2371.23 seconds

The recipes i use on those box are quite simple and most of the time it 
takes only 10-20 seconds.
i had no errors at all and all went fine, i used ruby ssh module to 
launch the commands and setup the beast.

all is ok now  so i hope my life will be better now :)
Thanks Luke for the product !

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Re: 41 server under puppet today

On Oct 1, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Adnet Ghislain wrote:

> Hello there.
>
>  Just to let you know i have just put in production mode puppet on  
> 41 freeBSD 4.7 virtual servers (yes not real servers but "jailed  
> ones"). I had some little problems with facter at first but i have  
> manualy  upgraded the servers that where affected by the little  
> "facter does not read his facts" problem i had. I should have  
> missed something in my deploiement.
>
>  All was fine except some server with very slow responses. Perhaps  
> this is why facter had some issue:
>
> notice: Finished configuration run in 1171.60 seconds
> notice: Finished configuration run in 1905.57 seconds
> notice: Finished configuration run in 1843.25 seconds
> notice: Finished configuration run in 2371.23 seconds
>
> The recipes i use on those box are quite simple and most of the  
> time it takes only 10-20 seconds.
> i had no errors at all and all went fine, i used ruby ssh module to  
> launch the commands and setup the beast.

Ouch, those are unreasonably long runs.  You aren't seeing this most  
of the time, then?

I've always been somewhat concerned that there might be performance  
problems for large networks or large configurations, but I haven't  
heard any significant problems so far.

If you continue having very slow runs, I'd like to try to figure out  
what's taking so long.  It could be the packaging, but I don't  
remember if FreeBSD package operations tend to be slow -- if they do,  
then you could schedule them to happen only daily, instead of every run.

> all is ok now  so i hope my life will be better now :)
> Thanks Luke for the product !

Great, I'm glad to hear everything is working well to make your life  
easier.

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New repo for suse packages

Hi,

I'm now  using suse build service to build suse packages for puppet
and facter. The packages can now be found at

http://software.opensuse.org/download/systemmanagement:/misc/

They are available for all suse versions now (but I tested them only
on opensuse 10.1 and factory). I will still leave old puppet packages
at the old location, but newer versions of puppet will only be
available at build service. BTW, this suse build service is really
nice.

Martin

Re: 41 server under puppet today

On 02/10/06, Luke Kanies <luke <at> madstop.com> wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Adnet Ghislain wrote:
>
> > Hello there.
> >
> >  Just to let you know i have just put in production mode puppet on
> > 41 freeBSD 4.7 virtual servers (yes not real servers but "jailed
> > ones"). I had some little problems with facter at first but i have
> > manualy  upgraded the servers that where affected by the little
> > "facter does not read his facts" problem i had. I should have
> > missed something in my deploiement.
> >
> >  All was fine except some server with very slow responses. Perhaps
> > this is why facter had some issue:
> >
> > notice: Finished configuration run in 1171.60 seconds
> > notice: Finished configuration run in 1905.57 seconds
> > notice: Finished configuration run in 1843.25 seconds
> > notice: Finished configuration run in 2371.23 seconds
> >
> > The recipes i use on those box are quite simple and most of the
> > time it takes only 10-20 seconds.
> > i had no errors at all and all went fine, i used ruby ssh module to
> > launch the commands and setup the beast.
>
> Ouch, those are unreasonably long runs.  You aren't seeing this most
> of the time, then?
>
> I've always been somewhat concerned that there might be performance
> problems for large networks or large configurations, but I haven't
> heard any significant problems so far.
>
> If you continue having very slow runs, I'd like to try to figure out
> what's taking so long.  It could be the packaging, but I don't
> remember if FreeBSD package operations tend to be slow -- if they do,
> then you could schedule them to happen only daily, instead of every run.
>
> > all is ok now  so i hope my life will be better now :)
> > Thanks Luke for the product !
>
> Great, I'm glad to hear everything is working well to make your life
> easier.
>
> --
> Luke Kanies
> http://madstop.com

I have to ask: Is anyone running puppet in a large environment? i.e.
between 100 and 1000 hosts?

While I have toyed with puppet in a small lab environment, I'd hate to
start seeing scaling issues once I'd deployed to only 10% of my
install base.

regards

matthew

Re: 41 server under puppet today

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:32:53AM +1000, Matthew Flanagan wrote:
> I have to ask: Is anyone running puppet in a large environment? i.e.
> between 100 and 1000 hosts?

I'd probably have that many running around by now.  No issues with
increasing size, either technical or social, thus far.

- Matt

Re: 41 server under puppet today

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Re: 41 server under puppet today

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:32:53AM +0200, José González Gómez wrote:
> 2006/10/3, Matt Palmer <mpalmer <at> hezmatt.org>:
> >
> >On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:32:53AM +1000, Matthew Flanagan wrote:
> >> I have to ask: Is anyone running puppet in a large environment? i.e.
> >> between 100 and 1000 hosts?
> >
> >I'd probably have that many running around by now.  No issues with
> >increasing size, either technical or social, thus far.
> 
> I'm curious about this, do they run from the same puppet server?

Yes.

> Have you seen any type of scaling issue there?

"No issues with increasing size, either technical or social, thus far."

> I've been thinking about the possibility of having kind of a tree setup,
> where you have a puppet "metaserver" (a puppet server able to configure
> child puppet servers) and then a number of puppet servers with their
> corresponding clients... what do you think of this?

You'll probably have to have separate CAs, and you'll lose a lot of the
advantages of object export and collection.  There's also the issue of
getting the manifests out to all of the "end" servers, although that's
pretty simple to solve.

- Matt

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