When we have multiple Puppetservers, it's important we decide how agents determine which server to connect to. We'll be inspecting a simple strategy of placing Puppetservers closest to the nodes they serve, as well as load balancing strategies that cover larger infrastructure needs. These two methods can be combined if there is a security requirement for isolated masters and a technical requirement for more catalog compilation from additional Puppetservers.
Load balancing
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