One word: Idempotence. If you have to do what you are asking, ur doin' it wrong.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Philip Brown <phil.googlen...@bolthole.com>wrote: > I've been poking around the web docs, and dont see an answer to this > yet: > > Is there any pre-existing functionality in puppet, to allow limiting > parallelism? > > Example: > Lets say that I want all machines to run some sort of job, that > updates a central database with information about the state of each > puppet client. > > Lets also say, that I have 1000 machines, so if all of them decide to > do it at the exact same time, it would be a Bad Thing. > So I ideally would like some kind of puppet mechanism that says, > "run this script... but only if there are less than 10 other machines > doing the same thing at this particular moment)" > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- http://about.me/scoot http://twitter.com/ohlol -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
