On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell <[email protected]>wrote:
> It's not quite *static* content. I can see a lot of ways that this > might be useful to users. For example, I host yum/apt/DMG repos (and > maybe nuget too!) on my puppet masters, and as I scale puppet masters > I will want to use shared storage for those - probably NFS. So being > able to add the state of that NFS mount to my server status would be > useful -- if the mount is unavailable, the load balancer should skip > that master and I should get an alert via the monitoring system. But, > I could do that with a crontask that just kills the puppetmaster if > the mount is inaccessible. The effect would be the same, and probably > just as quick. > > In that kind of a setup I would expect that you would get the monitoring hooked up to the load balancer to remove "bad" masters. I'm not sure that monitoring aspects of the underlying system should be a part of the master's job. I would expect that a status page on the master would deal with how the master itself is acting. > Another use is to take a master out of service gracefully, manually. > That's the original motivation for this ARM. However, it occurs to me > that this is usually best done via the load balancer itself - it > should have some UI for removing a node or nodes from the pool. > > The more we discuss this, as written, the less useful it sounds. > Morphing it into a "make puppet monitorable as a rack app" seems like > a *big* change. > > It might be a big change, or it might not. I haven't looked into it too deeply. However, it is sounding like the conclusion on this ARM is "not compelling as described". > Dustin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Andrew Parker [email protected] Freenode: zaphod42 Twitter: @aparker42 Software Developer *Join us at PuppetConf 2014, September 23-24 in San Francisco* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
