Hi Miguel, thanks for the mail. There are a lot of issues with `puppet kick`, because it requires an open TCP port listening on every agent, special auth.conf setup, and some form of node discovery/inventory. While I can definitely understand that people find kick useful, we really think that mcollective is the right way forward because it addresses all 3 of these issues and gives you a ton of extra functionality that kick simply can't do.
Note that in 3.0 we are just going to start emitting a warning message; the code is still there and will continue to work through the 3.x series. I really think that by the time the "hard" deprecation comes in 4.0, mcollective will be super easy to get running even for small sites and give a way better user experience than kick ever did. Eric Sorenson - [email protected] PuppetConf'12 - 27-28 Sep in SF - http://bit.ly/pcsig12 On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho wrote: > Hi there! > > It has come to my attention (I hope not too late) the decision to > deprecate 'puppet kick' and the agent 'listen' parameter. > > The issue: > https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15735 > > Code already merged: > https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/b1674e72a5e7b33103677a23b1e2c49a04123531 > > I have searched the archive of this mailing list and did not find any > discussion about it. If there was one, please point me to it. > > I often use 'puppet kick' to trigger runs on single nodes that need > the changes immediately. Yes, I know, "install mcollective". > > 'puppet kick' is very handy in places where there aren't many nodes > and setting up mcollective is kind of overkill. > > Just my 2 cents about a feature that is useful and I think other users > will miss it. > > Regards, > > Miguel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
