[Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2016-03-19 Thread J Payne
On Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 6:23:23 PM UTC-6, Patrick Hemmer wrote: > There's been an idea floating in my mind for quite a while now about using a > job queue for compiling puppet catalogs. I just mentioned the idea on IRC and > a few people really liked the idea, so I thought I'd bring it

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2016-03-19 Thread jcbollinger
On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 12:53:43 PM UTC-5, Eric Sorenson wrote: > > The first and most significant chunk of the direct puppet work, namely a > production-ready version of "static catalogs" is going out in Puppet 4.4.0. > You can preview the documentation for it here: >

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2016-03-15 Thread Eric Sorenson
ning on Jira at the moment, but I'd guess lots of > this will > be PE only if recent blogs are anything to go by > > - Original Message - > > From: "jcbollinger" <john.bollin...@stjude.org> > > To: "puppet-users" <puppet-users@googlegroups.com> >

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2016-03-14 Thread SG Madurai
t-users" <puppet...@googlegroups.com > > > Sent: Tuesday, 8 March, 2016 15:51:31 > > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue > idea > > > On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:57:33 PM UTC-6, SG Madurai wrote: > >> > >>

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2016-03-08 Thread SG Madurai
Hi John, thank you for the explanation, these are very useful insights! Ok, let me follow this through and see where i get it and update you all here. On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 11:51:31 PM UTC+9, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:57:33 PM UTC-6, SG Madurai wrote: >> >>

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2016-03-08 Thread R.I.Pienaar
ppet-users@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, 8 March, 2016 15:51:31 > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea > On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:57:33 PM UTC-6, SG Madurai wrote: >> >> Hi John, Thank you for the update. >> >> Pardon me i

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2016-03-08 Thread jcbollinger
On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:57:33 PM UTC-6, SG Madurai wrote: > > Hi John, Thank you for the update. > > Pardon me if i am asking about things that have been clarified/ settled > already. > > From what i understand, agent run times are primarily determined by > - catalog compilation time at

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2016-03-07 Thread SG Madurai
Hi John, Thank you for the update. Pardon me if i am asking about things that have been clarified/ settled already. >From what i understand, agent run times are primarily determined by - catalog compilation time at master - the time for agent to apply catalog on its node So was basically

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2016-03-07 Thread jcbollinger
On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 7:50:32 PM UTC-6, SG Madurai wrote: > > Hi, > > did we further explore options/alternatives with respect to pre-caching > of catalogs by puppet master to improve agent run times. > Or Is it like this was never looked at after this discussion. > > I see an

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2016-03-06 Thread SG Madurai
Hi, did we further explore options/alternatives with respect to pre-caching of catalogs by puppet master to improve agent run times. Or Is it like this was never looked at after this discussion. I see an accepted ticket from Robin Bowes: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4486 and

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2014-01-19 Thread Felix Frank
Hi, you both raise a couple of good points. All things considered, I lean towards John's point of view. There's much to say for on-demand compilation. - resource use scales with number of agents - scaling can be influenced via intervals - admins can predict the need for recompilation and

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2014-01-13 Thread jcbollinger
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 7:31:03 PM UTC-6, Patrick wrote: On Friday, January 10, 2014 3:57:03 PM UTC-5, jcbollinger wrote: The key idea here seems to be to improve the master's average response time for catalog requests by pre-compiling and caching catalogs, then serving those

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2014-01-12 Thread Patrick
On Friday, January 10, 2014 3:57:03 PM UTC-5, jcbollinger wrote: On Thursday, January 9, 2014 6:23:23 PM UTC-6, Patrick Hemmer wrote: There's been an idea floating in my mind for quite a while now about using a job queue for compiling puppet catalogs. I just mentioned the idea on IRC

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet catalog compilation job queue idea

2014-01-10 Thread jcbollinger
On Thursday, January 9, 2014 6:23:23 PM UTC-6, Patrick Hemmer wrote: There's been an idea floating in my mind for quite a while now about using a job queue for compiling puppet catalogs. I just mentioned the idea on IRC and a few people really liked the idea, so I thought I'd bring it up