puppet enterprise free eval hardware requirements

[Vince Skahan]

geez puppet needs a 'lot' of oomph to spin up the first node....

Evaluation Environment

An evaluation environment is run on a monolithic installation and is suitable for evaluating PE on 250 or fewer nodes. We recommend that your hardware meets the following:

• A 4-core server with 6 GB of RAM
• At least 100 GB of free storage in /opt for PuppetDB

We strongly recommend that users on systems with 4 GB of RAM upgrading or migrating to PE 3.7 from PE 3.3 or earlier upgrade to 6 GB of RAM before attempting to upgrade or migrate their PE installation.

I have a 16-GB ram Intel NUC (http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/nuc-kit-d54250wyk-product-brief.pdf) running Centos7 and was thinking of spinning up some VMs to try this out.  Does this system have enough oomph to run the 10-node-max free eval, or am I going to be stuck with running masterless perhaps ?

[Craig White]

PE version is a robust, monolithic turnkey install. They used to have a community based test VM pair which had much lighter requirements (albeit with less services) but I haven't checked in a long time so it may not be available any longer.

[Johan De Wit]

I run the PE 3.7.2 all the time in some vagrant boxes on a 2core 8GB laptop.

I assign 1 core and and 4G of ram to the master.


For testing purposes this is great.

I also run multiple agents with sometimes as less as 256M of ram.

Mostly using centos6.x and 7.x

hth

grts

Johan

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[Brad Knowles]

On Mar 30, 2015, at 5:32 PM, Vince Skahan <vince...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a 16-GB ram Intel NUC (http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/nuc-kit-d54250wyk-product-brief.pdf) running Centos7 and was thinking of spinning up some VMs to try this out. Does this system have enough oomph to run the 10-node-max free eval, or am I going to be stuck with running masterless perhaps ?

When running the eval copy of PE 3.7.2 on AWS, we have found that you can boot the master if the VM is an m3.medium (3.5GB), but you run into memory problems that cause the system to be unreliable. If we use m3.larges (7.5GB), the systems are just fine. We haven’t come anywhere close to stressing the CPU or RAM of an m3.large in that kind of environment, but AWS doesn’t give you a whole lot of options between them.

So, on a 16GB NUC, I would think you could devote 6GB to the puppet master and still have enough RAM left over to run 10x nodes with 1GB RAM each, and you should be fine.

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[Vince Skahan]

On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 12:48:40 AM UTC-7, Brad Knowles wrote:

When running the eval copy of PE 3.7.2 on AWS, we have found that you can boot the master if the VM is an m3.medium (3.5GB), but you run into memory problems that cause the system to be unreliable.  If we use m3.larges (7.5GB), the systems are just fine.  We haven’t come anywhere close to stressing the CPU or RAM of an m3.large in that kind of environment, but AWS doesn’t give you a whole lot of options between them.

So, on a 16GB NUC, I would think you could devote 6GB to the puppet master and still have enough RAM left over to run 10x nodes with 1GB RAM each, and you should be fine.

Thanks - for under 10 clients is 100GB for storage really needed ?    Would more like 50 be good enough ?

Thinking of kickstarting up a centos7 host under qemu-kvm (on a centos7 host) if that matters.

[Brad Knowles]

On Apr 1, 2015, at 6:57 PM, Vince Skahan <vince...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks - for under 10 clients is 100GB for storage really needed ? Would more like 50 be good enough ?

Sorry, I haven’t looked at the storage requirements.

> Thinking of kickstarting up a centos7 host under qemu-kvm (on a centos7 host) if that matters.

That sounds like it should work fine. But YMMV. ;)