mcollective
mcollective is an orchestration tool created by Puppet Labs that is not specific to Puppet. Plugins exist to work with other configuration management systems. mcollective uses a Message Queue (MQ) tool with active connections from all active nodes to enable parallel job execution on a large numbers of nodes.
To understand how mcollective works, we'll consider the following high-level diagram and work through various components. The configuration of mcollective is somewhat involved and prone to errors. Still, once mcollective is working properly, the power it provides can become addictive. It will be worth the effort, I promise.
In the following diagram, we see that the client executing the mcollective command communicates with the MQ ...
Get Puppet: Mastering Infrastructure Automation now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
