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Extending Puppet - Second Edition

By : Alessandro Franceschi, Jaime Soriano Pastor
Book Image

Extending Puppet - Second Edition

By: Alessandro Franceschi, Jaime Soriano Pastor

Overview of this book

Puppet has changed the way we manage our systems, but Puppet itself is changing and evolving, and so are the ways we are using it. To tackle our IT infrastructure challenges and avoid common errors when designing our architectures, an up-to-date, practical, and focused view of the current and future Puppet evolution is what we need. With Puppet, you define the state of your IT infrastructure, and it automatically enforces the desired state. This book will be your guide to designing and deploying your Puppet architecture. It will help you utilize Puppet to manage your IT infrastructure. Get to grips with Hiera and learn how to install and configure it, before learning best practices for writing reusable and maintainable code. You will also be able to explore the latest features of Puppet 4, before executing, testing, and deploying Puppet across your systems. As you progress, Extending Puppet takes you through higher abstraction modules, along with tips for effective code workflow management. Finally, you will learn how to develop plugins for Puppet - as well as some useful techniques that can help you to avoid common errors and overcome everyday challenges.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Extending Puppet Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Direct Puppet


The Direct Puppet initiative aims to make some improvements in how clients and servers communicate. Most of the efforts will be focused on having more control on how and when catalogs are recompiled, trying to do it just when needed.

This initiative includes a change in the protocol that will make it more efficient. Instead of asking the server for the catalog, the client will have the initiative of sending (before anything) an identifier of the last catalog executed. The communication will follow these steps:

  1. Client agent sends last executed catalog_id to the server. As part of the direct Puppet initiative, catalogs are intended to change only if a new version of the catalog is released, that means that while the same code is deployed, the same catalog will never be computed for the same node (even if facts change), so Puppet will be able to uniquely identify it.

  2. Puppet server checks if this catalog_id corresponds to the currently deployed code, if it is, it doesn't need to compile...