Re: [Puppet Users] puppet capistrano and repository

2010-07-12 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 13 July 2010 06:51, Julian Simpson wrote: > > > On 12 July 2010 14:33, bmort wrote: >> >> - start puppet with Capistrano >> - puppet checks the  'repository'  and determines changes have been >> made >> - applies  any changes >> > > Can I ask why you want to do that?  You want to push the Pupp

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-23 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 23 February 2010 03:49, tobyriddell wrote: >> Comparing CPU utilisation is like benchmarking cars by seeing how well >> they float. > > Without wanting to appear flippant, perhaps I want a floating car :) Then perhaps you should be looking for a boat? Puppet's performance and scaling problems

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 22 February 2010 16:37, James Cammarata wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:17:52 +, Toby Riddell > wrote: >> I received my copy of ;login (the Usenix magazine) today. There's an >> article* comparing CPU utilisation of Puppet and Cfengine. To >> abbreviate massively: Puppet requires much mo

Re: [Puppet Users] rrd library missing

2010-01-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 22 January 2010 18:58, Ohad Levy wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Silviu Paragina wrote: >> >> Are you using by any chance any trunk version of puppet? >> >> As far as I know puppet currently (0.25.4) uses RubyRRDTool gem which is >> not the same as the ruby rrd library bundled in R

[Puppet Users] Re: Behavior Driven Infrastructure

2009-11-09 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2009/11/6 Martin Englund : >> > It is indeed better to work on this jointly. You are much further > along the way, so I'll clone your cucumber-nagios repository and work > in integrating the stuff I've done into your code. You'll be hearing > from me shortly... So i've added some SSH steps to cuc

[Puppet Users] Re: Complicated?

2009-10-25 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2009/10/25 R.I.Pienaar : > > - "Lindsay Holmwood" wrote: > >> >> The way i've gotten around this before is by tagging my classes, and >> then do an initial run with puppetd for things tagged with yum and >> ldap. >> > > So exactl

[Puppet Users] Re: Complicated?

2009-10-25 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2009/10/25 R.I.Pienaar : > > hello, > > - "Douglas Garstang" wrote: > >> Is it really this complicated? Follow my logic here... >> >> In my scenario, it's critical that my yum repositories get installed >> by puppet to /etc/yum.repos.d first before anything else happens. >> After this, the yu

[Puppet Users] Re: high cpu usage and slow puppet performance..

2009-03-12 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2009/3/12 Robin Lee Powell : > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:51:59PM +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: >> >> Puppet has to do a stat and md5sum on every file under that path, > > It *what*?  Just for an owner and group check?  Why? > > Can that be turned off?  We g

[Puppet Users] Re: high cpu usage and slow puppet performance..

2009-03-12 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 12/03/2009, at 18:41, barrowkwan wrote: > > looks like the following could cause high cpu usage and take puppet > longer time to finish a catalog run > > >file { "/some/path": >owner => "user1", >group => "group1", >ensure => directory, >recurse => true >