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Extending Puppet
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Extending Puppet

by Alessandro Franceschi
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3. PuppetDB

A model based on agents that receive and apply a catalog received from the Puppet Master has an intrinsic limitation. The client has no visibility and direct awareness about the state of resources of the other nodes.

It is not possible, for example, to execute functions that do different things according to different external conditions, during the catalog application. There are many cases where information about other nodes and services could be useful to manage local configurations. For example, we might have to perform the following actions:

  • Start a service only when we are sure that the database, the queues, or any external resource it relies upon are already available in some external nodes
  • Configure a load balancer that ...
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