Performance profiling of Puppet compilation and agent runs

Speaker: R.I.Pienaar

Abstract

As Puppet environments grow you soon find you need to performance tune the time catalog compilation takes and how long Puppet take to apply those catalogs. Puppet can expose performance data about compilation and runs. This talk will introduce the audience to the performance data and show how to interpret them and cover some common strategies for speeding things up.

Biography

R.I. Pienaar is an independent consultant based in London where he works primarily in the field of server automation. Previously the author of tools like Hiera and MCollective