Once upon a time Friday 25 May 2007, Mike McGrath wrote: > Over the last couple of weeks we've been using puppet to distribute > static content across some of our application servers and proxy servers. > > Static content might include the new static webpage or an application > like our accounts system. > > This has proved to be a bit of an issue. Puppet wasn't really designed > to do this and as such puts a noticeable load on the boxes while running > as well as causing longer runs. Puppet works for this but we're > currently into it managing thousands of files and initial deploys take a > long time :) In the past we'd discussed moving some things (like > turbogears apps) around using rpms. We can do that with tg pretty > easily. But what about other static content, images, things like that? > > This needs to be scriptable from start to finish, here's the options as > I see them: > > 1. Straight nfs mount (boo) > 2. nfs mount to cron copy the files > 3. recursive wget to an http store somewhere > 4. rsync via ssh keys or rsync server (I'm currently leaning towards this) > 5. Figure out how to make puppet more efficient with large numbers of > files. > > > We've got a whole pool of sysadmins on this list. How do you deal with > these issues in your current environments? how about using cvs and scripting a checkout of the content? i wuld say either that or rsync. since alot of it like the accounts system is already in cvs why not use that? Dennis
