Puppet users - Jul 2014 - increasing frequency of puppet agent runs during initial deployment?

I'm beginning to use Puppet, and I'm looking for suggestions for the
best way to have 'puppet agent' run very frequently during the initial
deployment phase on a new server.

In our environment, there's one local puppet module that's called in the
'post' stage. This module essentially depends on all other services and
local configurations on the server.

Reaching that stage on a newly deployed server takes serveral iterations
of 'puppet agent'.

Each client calls the puppet agent as a cron job, every 30 minutes. That's
fine after machine is fully configured, but means that there's a long
interval between kickstarting a new machine and having it reach a
usable state.

Essentially, I'd like the calls to 'puppet agent' to loop
continuously
(with a very short pause) until classes in the 'post' stage have met
their requirements and executed once, at which time the server is fully
configured and puppet can be run at the normal 30-minute interval.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark

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