On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Jake - USPS <jacob.m.mcc...@usps.gov>wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out if there is a common/working setup that people > are using to host puppet in remote sites. > > At first our setup was that we have several puppetmasters (PM) in site A > and a couple in our smaller site B. In site A we are also hosting Foreman > and our mysql DB for storeconfigs. site A and B are connected via a WAN > that is fairly slow. > > With this setup the issue I ran into was a lot of puppet agent runs in > site B would timeout. They connect to their PM in site B just fine, but > then the site B PM needs to connect to the storeconfigs DB in site A. This > connection usually takes too long. So we end up with about 50% error rate > in site B while having a 0% error rate in site A. > > I've tried to address this by using async_storeconfigs which seemed to > help a lot but ran into https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12140 which > was a dealbreaker. > > Something else I've tried is just having agents in site B use the PMs in > site A (so no more PM in site B). This helps a lot, but we still get > errors. The 50% error rate drops down to about 1% error rate. It seems > the traffic from agent to PM is less then the traffic from PM to DB? Not > only did the error rate go down, but config retrievals sped up. > > One thing I'm wondering is if there is a way to setup a mysql storeconfigs > DB in site B to reduce latency. Either only nodes in site B will use > storeconfigs in site B or maybe site A and B are 'clustered' somehow over > WAN? I'm not very strong with mysql skills though so I'm not sure what all > can be done with it to address the issues I'm facing ... > > So I was wondering does anyone else manage remote sites? Is there a way > to do it while still maintaining a central storeconfigs DB and > 'dashboard/ENC' (don't want to have 'login here to view these nodes, login > there to view these other nodes)? > > Thanks for all comments! > I think thats one of the known shortcoming of storeconfigs, and one of the main reasons I've never used them personally in the past. What is your usage case fore storeconfigs? I always found ways to avoid using it (e.g. by storing the data i need somewhere else). I had (job N-1) about 15 sites (each with PM's) working really nice, but without storeconfigs.. Ohad > Jake > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/Wb3Mae8Kd3YJ. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
