{"id":3548,"date":"2016-12-13T19:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2016-12-13T19:49:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T18:49:18","slug":"an-update-on-my-choria-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2016\/12\/13\/an-update-on-my-choria-project.php","title":{"rendered":"An update on my Choria project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I mentioned that I am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2016\/07\/27\/fix-the-mcollective-deployment-story.php\">working on improving the MCollective Deployment story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I started a project called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ripienaar\/mcollective-choria\">Choria<\/a> that aimed to massively improve the deployment UX and yield a secure and stable MCollective setup for those using Puppet 4.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to make installation quick and secure, towards that it seems a common end to end install from scratch by someone new to project using a clustered NATS setup can take less than a hour, this is a huge improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Further I&#8217;ve had really good user feedback, especially around NATS.  One user reports 2000 nodes on a single NATS server consuming 300MB RAM and it being very performant, much more so than the previous setup.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a few months, this is whats changed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The module now supports every OS AIO Puppet supports, including Windows.<\/li>\n<li>Documentation is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/choria.io\">choria.io<\/a>, installation should take about a hour max.<\/li>\n<li>The PQL language can now be used to do completely custom infrastructure discovery against PuppetDB.<\/li>\n<li>Many bugs have been fixed, many things have been streamlined and made more easy to get going with better defaults.<\/li>\n<li>Event Machine is not needed anymore.<\/li>\n<li>A number of POC projects have been done to flesh out next steps, things like a very capable playbook system and a revisit to the generic RPC client, these are on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ripienaar\/mcollective-choria\/issues\">GitHub issues<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile I am still trying to get to a point where I can take over maintenance of MCollective again, at first Puppet Inc was very open to the idea but I am afraid it&#8217;s been 7 months and it&#8217;s getting nowhere, calls for cooperation are just being ignored.  Unfortunately I think we&#8217;re getting pretty close to a fork being the only productive next step.<\/p>\n<p>For now though, I&#8217;d say the Choria plugin set is production ready and stable any one using Puppet 4 AIO should consider using these &#8211; it&#8217;s about the only working way to get MCollective on FOSS Puppet now due to the state of the other installation options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I mentioned that I am working on improving the MCollective Deployment story. I started a project called Choria that aimed to massively improve the deployment UX and yield a secure and stable MCollective setup for those using Puppet 4. The aim is to make installation quick and secure, towards that it seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,121,78,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}