On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 12:11:19 PM UTC-7, Spencer Krum 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.
FWIW, I've moved away from this pattern for a few reasons: - blocking catalog execution lad to lots of issues, the worst of which I've seen is that recovery of failure states can take forever. I've moved towards a mode is just failing a subgraph quickly if pre-conditions aren't met. - I've also moved away from the model of directly querying to perform the same actions through a service registration/discovery system (in my case consul) > > > 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 > > > -- > Spencer Krum > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/408b8895-bdcd-4eb0-981a-0399f6865d64%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
