Foreman Installer - Feature #347: Cache generated external nodes yaml - Foreman

Feature #347

Cache generated external nodes yaml

Added by Paul Kelly over 1 year ago. Updated 8 months ago.

Status:

Closed

Start:

07/12/2010

Priority:

Normal

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Assigned to:

Ohad Levy

% Done:

100%

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Description

To increase resilience the externalnodes function should cache its results between runs and if it is unable to generate a new result then it should return the cached value.

This may not be as useful as it seems because the puppet clients will also run the last valid manifest they received. I know that this is not quite the same but it is quite similar.

Associated revisions

Revision 7a092772ee8f0f7aeebe2653b3d49135e3035a86
Added by Ohad Levy 8 months ago

fixes #347 - Cache generated external nodes yaml

this provides saves by default the yaml output from foreman on your
puppetmasters.

it will default to /var/lib/puppet/foreman directory.

in case of failure/timeout/no reply, it would use the cached version of
the external nodes output.

it also contain the push facts alternative, of pushing a node facts
prior to requesting its external node data.
this is probably the best way to esnure that your foreman instance is
updated while not sending old facts to your foreman server.