On 12/5/14, 10:09 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
From Chef Infra Client Release Notes
"Splay and interval values are applied before the chef-client run The
--interval and --splay values are applied before the chef-client run
when using the chef-client and chef-solo executables."
I would love to hear the justification for this? Why would someone
want to wait 30 minutes for the chef-client to do it's FIRST run?
Because if you run chef-client on the command line as part of a
bootstrapping process and you have the chef-client cookbook installed
which manages itself and starts a daemon process to manage chef-client
then you generally do not want the daemonized chef-client immediately
launching another chef-client converge while the current one is
executing. This can cause issues with subsequent bootstrapping code
since the daemonized asynchronous chef-client process can get into
fights over things like yum locks. So the first run of chef-client
should not be with interval or sleep options and will run immediately,
you should only use the sleeps with daemonized runs, and
sleeping-first-then-running causes issues with initial asynchronous
chef-client runs.
My bootstrapping process doesn't run chef-client on the command line.
It runs it as a service.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Lamont Granquist lamont@chef.io wrote:
On 12/5/14, 10:09 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
From Chef Infra Client Release Notes
"Splay and interval values are applied before the chef-client run The
--interval and --splay values are applied before the chef-client run
when using the chef-client and chef-solo executables."
I would love to hear the justification for this? Why would someone
want to wait 30 minutes for the chef-client to do it's FIRST run?
Because if you run chef-client on the command line as part of a
bootstrapping process and you have the chef-client cookbook installed
which manages itself and starts a daemon process to manage chef-client
then you generally do not want the daemonized chef-client immediately
launching another chef-client converge while the current one is
executing. This can cause issues with subsequent bootstrapping code
since the daemonized asynchronous chef-client process can get into
fights over things like yum locks. So the first run of chef-client
should not be with interval or sleep options and will run immediately,
you should only use the sleeps with daemonized runs, and
sleeping-first-then-running causes issues with initial asynchronous
chef-client runs.
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Regards,
Douglas Garstang
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Email: doug.garstang@gmail.com
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