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Re:Puppet or Chef? by nodata on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @08:06AM (#4717024)
What was slow? The compilation time for the Puppet catalogs, or the run time on the clients?

Compilation is way quicker in 3.0, averages a couple of seconds per node for me. Client side is parallel, not sure how it could be quicker.

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Re:Puppet or Chef? by Hontano on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @10:16AM (#4717401)
Sorry, I don't recall in particular. It was about a year ago.

It was only a basic setup of a user account, a directory tree, and ufw. It took over a minute for either a first or subsequent run on a clean install of Natty. Considering how much more config I had to add and too little time to dedicate to investigating and speeding it up, I had to put Puppet aside.

Good to know 3.0 is a lot faster. I'll give it another look in future.

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Re:Puppet or Chef? by nodata on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @10:37AM (#4717490)
So from what you write it sounds like the time it took for Puppet to apply the configuration changes was the problem: to install all the packages you wanted, and then to configure and check them. This always takes time though, this isn't Puppet specific.
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