Re: [Puppet Users] Re: scaling puppet, skipping puppetmaster?

Philip Brown
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:58:48 -0000

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Luke Bigum <Luke.Bigum@lmax.com>
wrote:
> I use Puppet Commander, an MCollective tool:
>
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/mcollective-plugins/wiki/ToolPuppetcommander
>
> Rather than have my Puppet Agents check in, no Puppet service runs on
> any server, instead MCollective is running. Puppet Commander uses the
> MCollective framework to schedule Puppet runs. I decide how many
> should run at once and what their run interval should be based on the
> load of the Puppet Master.

Huh. Sounds like central scheduled rdist, in a way. The main
difference being, your scheduler tells clients, "okay get files from
me now", whereas rdist tells clients, "HERE are your files, take
em!"
:)

Thanks, I''ll look into mcollective.