I support you, John.

I have 500+ servers farm and 10 minute cron job good for me. 

среда, 15 марта 2017 г., 6:13:00 UTC+3 пользователь John Gelnaw написал:
>
> 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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