Since a long time people (including me) complained that storeconfigs was a real resource hog. Unfortunately for us, this option is so cool and useful.
What’s storeconfigs
Storeconfigs is a puppetmasterd option that stores the nodes actual configuration to a database. It does this by comparing the result of the last compilation against what is actually in the database, resource per resource, then parameter per parameter, and so on.
The actual implementation is based on Rails’ Active Record, which is a great way to abstract the gory details of the database, and prototype code easily …
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