On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Spencer Krum <n...@spencerkrum.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks, > > There is currently a PR against stdlib that I am writing to you today > about: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/pull/444 > Thanks to Spredzy for making this PR. > > This is tracked in jira: > https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/MODULES-1982 > > This pattern has poked up a few different places. As the PR says, it has > shown up in the monogodb module and the puppetdb module. I know that > Michael Chapman added something like this to his OpenStack things and > Dan Bode as well. > > At the modules triage today we had the following reactions (please reply > if there is something you said I didn't get): > > * This is a new pattern > * Having it in stdlib means we can't iterate on it quickly > * This is a library thing, and should be a library > * Once standardized, puppetdb and other modules could be retrofitted to > use it > * This will probably change frequently as people use it and explore what > it should/can do > > We had the idea that rather than landing this in puppet-stdlib, that we > could create a module in puppet-community to hold this and other > validation/health check resources. > > We had some ideas on the name: > > puppet-healthcheck > puppet-validation > puppet-external_validate. > > It's worth noting that these are primitives for building multi-node > orchestration with Puppet. > > What do you think? Do you use these patterns? Would you? What would you > want from your library? > > Thanks, > Spencer > As a data point for another use case, currently the OpenStack puppet modules have a while-loop with a timeout buried within the provider itself: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/puppet-neutron/tree/lib/puppet/provider/neutron.rb#n81 This is useful for cases when puppet restarts a service that doesn't come back up right away, or for when the operation is being done over a laggy network connection. Would love a less hacky way to do this. Colleen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAJkgcEnSAcpDokqDRvGcgetNPC6_1Gk5rhx9dnE4_rcrgPMfBQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
