Re: [Puppet-dev] ARM-15 - Master to Produce Meaningful Status Messages (Gerard Hickey)

2013-09-03 Thread Andy Parker
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > It's not quite *static* content. I can see a lot of ways that this > might be useful to users. For example, I host yum/apt/DMG repos (and > maybe nuget too!) on my puppet masters, and as I scale puppet masters > I will want to use shar

Re: [Puppet-dev] ARM-15 - Master to Produce Meaningful Status Messages (Gerard Hickey)

2013-09-01 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
It's not quite *static* content. I can see a lot of ways that this might be useful to users. For example, I host yum/apt/DMG repos (and maybe nuget too!) on my puppet masters, and as I scale puppet masters I will want to use shared storage for those - probably NFS. So being able to add the stat

Re: [Puppet-dev] ARM-15 - Master to Produce Meaningful Status Messages (Gerard Hickey)

2013-08-26 Thread Andy Parker
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > The current situation is that master monitoring basically consists of > a no-op HTTP request. We'd like to get to a point where it includes > live status of the master. It makes sense for that live status to > include among other thin

Re: [Puppet-dev] ARM-15 - Master to Produce Meaningful Status Messages (Gerard Hickey)

2013-08-26 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
The current situation is that master monitoring basically consists of a no-op HTTP request. We'd like to get to a point where it includes live status of the master. It makes sense for that live status to include among other things some manually-flippable "in_service?" kind of switch. My understa

Re: [Puppet-dev] ARM-15 - Master to Produce Meaningful Status Messages (Gerard Hickey)

2013-08-26 Thread Andy Parker
I just read over the PR that you linked to. It looks like an interesting idea, but I have to wonder about it a little bit. This proposal isn't to add automated metrics to the puppet master to keep track of things like compile stats, file request stats, etc. It is more of a manual mechanism for the

[Puppet-dev] ARM-15 - Master to Produce Meaningful Status Messages (Gerard Hickey)

2013-08-22 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
I thought I'd kick off discussion of this ARM, https://github.com/puppetlabs/armatures/pull/60/files (I started discussion in the pull req, but this is probably a better place for it) First, the summary is about the implementation - it should probably start with the goal: "load balancers should