On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Brice Figureau <brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com> wrote: > On 09/12/10 21:36, Chris C wrote: >> I planned on moving to Passenger very soon. >> >> What about the file server? Is there any worth in moving from >> nfs/autofs to puppet fileserver? > > The only reason I can see is security, access control and auditing. > Every access is protected through SSL, can be logged and passes through > the authorization layer (ie fileserver.conf).
I think there's another big benefit to using the internal fileserver. Your manifest and file source changes are synchronized in lock-step. When you're using anything else with it's own replication periods, you can end up with frustrating situations where a manifest has updated but a file hasn't. > In terms of performance I don't think it would have any impact (provided > you run 2.6) on your master and client (but that mostly depends on your > access patterns). And you can still use file content offloading (see one > of my blog post for more information). > -- > Brice Figureau > My Blog: http://www.masterzen.fr/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
