Mastering Puppet

Conquer by dividing

Depending on the size of your deployment and the way you connect to all your nodes, a masterless solution may be a good fit. In a masterless configuration, you don't run the Puppet agent; rather, you push the Puppet code to a node, and then run Puppet apply. There are a few benefits to this method and a few drawbacks.

Benefits	Drawbacks
No single point of failure	Can't use built-in reporting tools such as dashboard.
Simpler configuration	Exported resources requires nodes have write access to the database.
Finer-grained control on where code is deployed	Each node has access to all the code
Multiple simultaneous runs do not affect each other (reduces contention)	More difficult to know when a node is failing to apply ...