On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:06 AM, cnjohnson wrote:
> > I have deployed puppet on our test cluster -- 20 identically > configured x86_64 and ppc64 compute nodes and their gateways. I now > want to move to our production cluster with (say) 800 compute nodes > and their gateways. My question is about the puppet server box itself. > I am using apache+ssl with passenger and ruby 1.8.6. It was easy to > install and set up apache with passenger and to get puppet running > maintaining various files and services across the test cluster. The > puppet server is a dual-cpu x86 box with 1GB ram. It handles the test > cluster without troubles. > > Any thoughts about what sort of puppet-box I need to manage a cluster > of 800 boxes? > Hi Charles, It depends upon a number of factors, mostly your Puppet manifests, if you are using storeconfig and how much file handling you are doing. If you are using store config, you may want to think about moving the mysql (or posgresql) onto another server and/or additional CPUs. If the puppetmaster is x86_64 based, I would recommend 4+ GB based upon your node count and they way ruby scales on x86_64 arch. You should at minimum be on 0.24.8 and ideally 0.25 once it's released. Hope this helps.. -L -- Larry Ludwig Reductive Labs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
