On 2014-08-06 11:11, Johannes Grassler wrote: > Hello, > > we are currently creating and tearing down lots of VMs in our lab > environment. This includes retrieving and installing Puppet from the > Puppetlabs repository at apt.puppetlabs.com.
Not an answer to your question directly, but for lab environments (or any kind of environment, really) it is probably a good idea to set up an APT cacher or some other kind of APT forward proxy. This will certainly speed up package downloads on your lab machines and the impact on the upstream repositories will be minimised. We run Apache Trafficserver as a forward proxy but there are other options, such as squid-deb-proxy which is probably what I'd use in a new lab environment. Easier to run than a real mirror and usually requires almost no maintenance at all. Andreas
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