Re: git with large files...

From: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 22, 2012, 06:48 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+EOSBm2o+9j0Ykpe01tQmTGApZeJA36mJ=Kt8bNAywfpbODPw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+EOSBkVh-PvASXf5NOOW40MWzt4gdBm-21ER1EbUWLkCJ3cCA@mail.gmail.com>

I forgot to tell that using git for deploying puppet have also some disadvantages : you cant'use some puppet feature as external node classifiers or stored configurations. As always, there are tradeoff. For more

http: //bitfieldconsulting.com/scaling-puppet-with-distributed-version-control (the missing link)

cheers

2012/7/21, Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>:

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> Sure . There is a complete paragraph " creating decentralized puppet
> architecture" in "puppet 2.7 cookbook". I am also sure to have read
> the same topic on web on the site bitfieldconsulting.com  , not
> casually : the book's author have his blog there. Sorry i have not the
> complete url now - old smartphone, no wifi etc. But i hope this can
> help you the  same.
>
> Best regards
>
> 2012/7/21, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Well, many folks use puppet in serverless configuration pushing the
>>> manifest from a central git server via cron and applying locally the
>>> configuration fetched. In this sense git IS used for deployement. And,
>>> for a configuration management system as puppet this could be a
>>> sensible thing to do - reduce load, scalability ecc.
>>
>> That's a great thing to know, and timely too. I am looking at Puppet,
>> and worried a bit about reported memory load on the server side (and
>> some rumours of memory footprint issues on the client side too).
>>
>> Can you point me to more information & discussion?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> m
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