CHAPTER 11
MCollective
Marionette Collective (MCollective) is an orchestration framework closely related to Puppet. Puppet excels at managing the state of your systems; however, the default 30-minute run interval of the Puppet agent makes it unsuitable for real-time command and control. MCollective addresses the need to execute commands in real time on a large number of systems in a novel and unique manner. MCollective takes advantage of message-passing technologies to handle communication between the nodes collectively. With MCollective, nodes are easily divided into collections based on information about the node itself rather than hostnames. ...
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