From 139a1324e9014f81c7664f297ec61cf6ac9c821a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael DeHaan Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 00:23:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Allude to ansible-pull, more docs coming later. --- rst/index.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/rst/index.rst b/rst/index.rst index 737bde3f2d..12c77234fd 100644 --- a/rst/index.rst +++ b/rst/index.rst @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ version of software if required. Multi-machine software deployment is poorly solved by most systems management tools -- often due to architectural nature of being pull oriented and having complex ordering systems, they cover configuration but fail at deployment when updating tiers of machines in well defined steps. This results in using two (or more) logically distinct tools and having complex overlap between them. +If you actually do need pull oriented mode, though, Ansible 0.4 and later can run playbooks in pull mode as well. +This is useful in extreme scaling scenarios or when automatic system remediation is desired. Since Ansible remains +server and daemonless, scaling potential is unlimited, and no resources are wasted on running management daemons. + Deployment and Configuration, Unified `````````````````````````````````````