Rob, following on our IRC chat I will Cc here two guys from the community who know Puppet the best. Nate and Rich are likely to have the answer. Guys, if you can chime in on the topic - it'd be great!
To reiterate it: you are looking to a way to automatically tell if a recipe has failed and repeat it, if required, right? On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 09:50PM, Leidle, Rob wrote: > Thanks Cos, > > This would be something that I would want to automate as it would be > running many times across many different clusters. Ideally I would fix any > issues causing the puppet scripts to not complete properly, but I don╧t > know how realistic that is in the short term so I would like to setup > retry logic if that is the recommended way of doing things. That╧s why I > was hoping for some direction on how often to run the retry. > > On 11/29/14, 5:12 PM, "Konstantin Boudnik" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:50AM, Leidle, Rob wrote: > >> Thanks Roman, > >> > >> I actually fixed the problem. I had an existing process monitoring the > >> daemon and restarting it if it terminated. However, puppet encapsulates > >>this > >> so it is no longer needed. Also, this process was causing the namenode > >> service to terminate once. I removed my existing monitoring process and > >> everything is working fine. > >> > >> That being said is there a recommended number of times we should retry > >>the > >> puppet scripts on failure? > > > >Good to see you're coming through! As for the retries: if something > >doesn't > >work I usually check the logs immediatelly. Sometimes after a second > >re-run. > > > >Cos > > >
