On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Luke Kanies <l...@madstop.com> wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Paul Lathrop >> <p...@tertiusfamily.net> wrote: >>> >>> Who has tried their hand at developing a custom Node Terminus? >>> >>> I've dug through the wiki but I can't seem to find a lot of >>> information about the process. I'd love to hear any tips you might >>> have. If I'm the first to dive into this, no problem: I'll pester >>> Luke >>> for help and then write up some documentation :-) >> >> I've poked at it a little, and it's on my radar to look at soon, as >> we're looking for a way to consult an external database and inject >> packages automatically into the catalog without having to actually >> define them in puppet manifests, and it looked like a custom node >> terminus was the only way to do this. > > Node terminii can't add resources to the catalog, they can just set > parameters and classes on nodes. > > If you want to inject resources into the catalog, the only currently > non-heinously-hackish way to do it is by adding the resources to a > StoreConfigs db and then using a collection statement to pull them > out. I've done this for a couple of customers and it's worked pretty > well, although there are well-worn performance issues with > StoreConfigs. I think the performance issues are approachable, as > Brice demonstrated by making significant progress this summer, but > I've exhausted my own abilities on them.
ah damnit. We've experimented with storeconfigs, and have been unable to get it to scale, even with the significant improvements from Brice's patches. I guess this is why external nodes can only set parameters and classes as well. hmm. Any other slightly-more-hackish options? :) Worst comes to worst we'll write something to generate puppet manifests for us, but I'm a bit concerned about the possible overhead from the sheer number we're thinking about. -- Nigel Kersten Systems Administrator Tech Lead - MacOps --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
