David Lutterkort wrote:
What about diffing support, e.g. compare what's there and what we'd
like it to become, kind of a dry-run session to check deviations
between spec and reality?
Both the command-line tool and the client daemon have a 'noop' option,
that goes through the motions w/o making changes. After changes to
configs, I usually test them by running
# /usr/sbin/puppetd -v --onetime --noop
Cfengine also has a "dry run" option, though only on the "client" side -
then it is only the client that can make changes:
cfagent -v --no-splay --dry-run
Splay is the client's "run time delay" in order to spread out the load
onto the server. Low-tech (in my opinion) and not completely scalable,
but decent enough nonetheless.
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