This ia a post in a series of posts I am doing about MCollective 2.0 and later. We’ve discussed Direct Addressing Mode before and today I’ll show one of the new features this mode enables. Overview MCollective is very fast which is great usually. Sometimes though when you’re restarting webservers the speed and concurrency can Read More
This ia a post in a series of posts I am doing about MCollective 2.0 and later. In my previous post I detailed how you can extend the scope of the information MCollective has available to it about a node using Data Plugins, this was node side plugins today we’ll look at ones that runs Read More
This ia a post in a series of posts I am doing about MCollective 2.0 and later. In my previous post I covered a new syntax for composing discovery queries and right at the end touched on a data plugin system, today I’ll cover those in detail and show you how to write and use Read More
This ia a post in a series of posts I am doing about MCollective 2.0 and later. In the past discovery was reasonably functional, certainly at the time I first demoed it around 2009 it was very unique. Now other discovery frameworks exist that does all sorts of interesting things and so we did 3 Read More
As mentioned in my first post in this series I will be covering new MCollective features that were introduced with version 2.0.0 or later. Today I’ll talk about the biggest new feature called Direct Addressing. The Past – Broadcast Only Mode In the past MCollective only had one mode of communication. It would send a Read More
