puppet/chef

[Venkata Pingali]

Hi Ari/Michael/others,

You have some description of use of puppet here.
http://www.slideshare.net/jashmenn/getting-started-with-poolparty-and-ec2

1. Is this summary still true?

2. Are all nodes equal or is the first instance a puppet master
that serves configuration to the rest of the instances?

3. A message is shown saying 'master' is/will be deprecated.
What does it mean?

thanks!
Venkata

[Michael Fairchild]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Venkata Pingali <pin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Ari/Michael/others,

You have some description of use of puppet here.
http://www.slideshare.net/jashmenn/getting-started-with-poolparty-and-ec2

1. Is this summary still true?

I think it is a bit out of date.  The core in 1.1 is quite a bit different.  We need to, and plan to do a lot of documentation updating now that 1.1 is out.   Please feel free to add to the wiki, and or file lighthouse tickets for documentation.

2. Are all nodes equal or is the first instance a puppet master
that serves configuration to the rest of the instances?

1.1 does not use a puppet master server.  Each node runs the puppet commands independently.  However, chef is now the default dependency resolver and that is what we have been doing most of our testing against lately.  

3. A message is shown saying 'master' is/will be deprecated.
What does it mean?

In answer to 2 & 3: With 1.1 we are aiming for a decentralized architecture where the nodes all have access to the same resources, so the concept of master is being deprecated. In 1.2 we hope to remove all used of master.  

Thanks,

~Michael Fairchild

thanks!
Venkata