From 783be829afc2791c71488068f166f38f8a39a9d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: varac Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:23:37 +0200 Subject: Explain how to do faster partial platform deploys --- pages/docs/platform/details/under-the-hood.md | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'pages/docs/platform/details') diff --git a/pages/docs/platform/details/under-the-hood.md b/pages/docs/platform/details/under-the-hood.md index dcbddb3..4687c44 100644 --- a/pages/docs/platform/details/under-the-hood.md +++ b/pages/docs/platform/details/under-the-hood.md @@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ You can pass any combination of tags, i.e. use * "--tags leap_service": Only deploy service(s) (useful for debugging/development) * "--tags leap_base": Only deploy basic configuration (again, useful for debugging/development) -See http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/lang_tags.html for puppet tag usage. +### Doing faster partial deploys + +If you only change a tiny bit on the platform puppet recipes, you could achieve a +*much* faster deploy specifying the resource tag you changed. +i.e. you changed the way rsyslog config snippets for LEAP logfiles are created +in `puppet/modules/leap/manifests/logfile.pp`. This `define` resource will get tagged +automatically with `leap::logfile` and you can deploy the change with: + + leap deploy *NODE* --fast --tags=leap::logfile + +See http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/lang_tags.html for puppet tag usage. -- cgit v1.2.3