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diff --git a/DOCUMENTATION.md b/DOCUMENTATION.md index 22fab0e..b0e7b06 100644 --- a/DOCUMENTATION.md +++ b/DOCUMENTATION.md @@ -253,6 +253,28 @@ vagrant tricks, and to get the needed dependencies installed: ###Can I use it without a puppetmaster? +Yes, you can use Puppet-Gluster without a puppetmaster, however you will lose +out on some advantages and features that are simply not possible without one. +The features you will miss out on are Puppet-Gluster features, that make +configuring this module easier, and not any core GlusterFS features. + +For example, without a puppetmaster, [gluster::simple](#glustersimple) will not +be able to work, because it relies on the puppetmaster for the exchange of +[exported resources](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_exported.html) +so that Puppet-Gluster can automatically figure out how many hosts are present +in your cluster. + +To use Puppet-Gluster without a puppetmaster, you'll most likely want to use a +configuration that is similar to the [verbose distributed-replicate](https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster/blob/master/examples/distributed-replicate-example.pp) +example. + +The more philosophical way of thinking about this is that if you want to +have multi-hosts coordination of things, so that your life as a sysadmin is +easier, then you'll need to use a puppetmaster so that there is a central +point of coordination. This is a current design limitation of puppet. + +Please note that you can still use the [VIP as a DLM](#do-i-need-to-use-a-virtual-ip). + ###Puppet runs fail with "Invalid relationship" errors. When running Puppet, you encounter a compilation failure like: |