On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 11:40:26 AM UTC-4, Warron French wrote:
>
> Gleb, you are running a cronjob to control the interval at which your
> Puppet Clients are checking in?
>
> Did you know that you could instead use the option of *runinterval *within
> the /etc/puppet/puppet.conf file instead?
>
> In case you would like to see the help page on it, here:
> https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/3.8/configuration.html#runinterval
>
Speaking for myself, I run from cron because:
* it means the daemon isn't running the rest of the time.
* If the vmware farm reboots my servers en masse, I've potentially got
dozens of servers checking in simultaneously.
* While upstart and systemd have made things easier, the older sysv style
init wasn't that good at keeping a service running if it crashed
* I use puppet to ensure the right services are running
Although every 10 minutes seems a bit excessive-- If I need a server to run
more than twice an hour, I use mcollective to initiate a run.
I use fqdn_rand() to pick a consistent random number between 0-29, and
create a crontab entry that runs every "N" and "N+30" minutes.
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