Speaking of USENIX, a recent issue of ;login:, February 2010, Volume 35, Number 1, had an article benchmarking the "performance" and overhead of CFEngine and Puppet. I belive that the article is free to download at this point:
https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/february-2010-volume-35-number-1/puppet-and-cfengine-compared-time-and-resource On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 21:42, Daniel V. Klein <d...@lonewolf.com> wrote: > Jason- > > Stay tuned for an announcement of a USENIX "Configuration Management Summit - > Virtualization, the cloud, and scale" being help in Boston in June. Your > opinions and ideas would be extremely welcome there! > > -Dan Klein > > On Apr 13, 2012, at 7:48 PM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > >> Forum: CFEngine Help >> Subject: Can CFEngine 3 scale to support a 1 million + Enterprise? >> Author: jsabowabo >> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25558,25558#msg-25558 >> >> I've done a fair amount of reading on CFEngine 3, and I see references that >> it can scale, but I don't see how it can scale into the 100,000 + range. >> >> Can CFEngine 3 support a distributed enterprise (Like the U.S. Army) with >> upwards of 1,000,000 nodes? As you may know the Army currently uses MS >> SCCM, and I'm looking at alternatives as part of my thesis work. >> >> One of my specific concerns with scalablity is the capacity of each Hub, >> which seems to be around 2,000 clients. Another concern is the promise.cf >> file, which it seems would have to maintained separately for each major >> organization. >> >> Another concern is reporting. Can this product really do rollup reporting >> for 1 million clients and servers? >> >> The demo I watched seemed scalable for a few thousand nodes, not hundreds of >> thousands. What am I missing? >> >> Thanks >> Jason >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-cfengine mailing list >> Help-cfengine@cfengine.org >> https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Jesse Becker _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
