I can weigh in a little on this... As far as scalability of the puppet masters, it can be variable depending on what kind of puppet code you are running. The largest item that can ruin scalability is long catalog compilation time. Another thing is run interval.
Current at my workplace we run a pretty comprehensive puppet code base (100% provisioned and deployed via puppet) over 10,000+ puppet agents. We service the nodes through an LVS load balancer pair and have 3 puppet masters with 8 cores running Nginx with Passenger. We have a 6 hour run interval and also perform ad hoc runs. We have had 0 issues with this setup so far in regard to load however the puppet masters are consistently busy on all cores. PuppetDB with Postgres is a must. I know a lot of people are now turning to Hiera backends to do their ENC as well as Dashboard and Foreman. Thanks, Cory On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Jerald Sheets <que...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 19, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Peter Berghold <salty.cowd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Second: is there a way to use a load balancer in front of a bank of Puppet >> masters and keep the reports in sync? > > PuppetDB eliminates this need for you, and you can scale at the PostGres > layer instead. Have a peek at PuppetDB. It’s a default install with PE, and > easy to install with OSS Puppet. > > >> I am considering proposing Puppet Dashboard as an ENC. > > According to my communications with various folks doing this for a living, > Foreman seems to be the favored ENC to recommend given that Dashboard is > being deprecated. Not totally, as it’s been released to the community, but > it’s not the “go-to” any more, necessarily. > > —jms -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAJNEtxs4HbgVe-bsGo2DfxxKR0_L2qG6OSuLu%2BpM%3D4J%2BS9eH7w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
