Hi Stephen, On Monday, 22 October 2012 21:28:23 UTC+2, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Turn the question around for a moment: why do you have so many file > resources? >
These systems are puppet-controlled from the /etc/inittab through the whole boot process and each and every service startup file definition, along with their packages, which are compiled (unfurtunately, this requires at least one file resource - install script) and service configuration files. Why? Let's put it this way: if you have a cluster of redundant machines, you can do a rolling upgrade to newer OSes etc. If not, then uptime must not be disturbed and this is the only way we can run recent/fresh software on quite old distributions (install bare! distro, no libs, then compile everything in a controlled maner.). I hope I have given you a decent answer, because Borat tends to disagree with me:) http://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/209720453881798656 b. -- 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/-/pBm9LlYO5OsJ. 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.
