Puppet 2.6.1 released
We are proud to announce that Puppet version 2.6.1 has been released! The 2.6.1 release is a maintenance release in the current stable 2.6.x series of releases. It’s an important update that enhances stability and performance and we recommend that customers and users upgrade to this release.
As part of the release we are excited to announce that Puppet now supports running under JRuby which enhances its performance and scalability.
In addition we’ve provided a small number of new and enhanced features that you can see in its release notes.
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I wonder how does running under JRuby enhance “performance and scalability”? I haven’t found anything on why or if I should be migrating to a jruby runtime. Having recently rolled out ruby to numerous AIX machines to get puppet on them this seems both interesting but also rather obscure.
Anywhere I can read up on this? I haven’t found much by way of search hits on this topic.
Anthony – This is based on work Brice Figureau has done – he runs under JRuby and has found that using that runtime improves the performance of Ruby applications (not just Puppet). I’ll point him at this thread and see if he can add some more data points.
I’m interested in feedback on performance improvements under JRuby as well. Are there any benchmarks or, better yet, real-world experiences?