[Puppet Users] Puppet : so unpredictable

goacid
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:30:17 -0000

Hi all,

I use puppet with many modules since few times, and I remark that
puppet take long time to finished, because I take some action which
depends on others which are not yet executed.
So I tried to put enough require/before inside my modules to be sur
that the order of differents actions will be the good one, because
some actions depends on another part of other modules.

But in fact, running puppet on a fresh installed server take action in
a certain order, and often I does not take care of the dependencies I
try to configure. After re installation of the server, I run again
puppet, the order of the action are not the same, sometimes better,
sometimes not, but never the same.

Does anyone have any information about puppet dependency, the
puppetwiki is very poor concerning this question. And more important,
how does puppet choose the way it will act on a server, first thing,
second things ...