Current solution is not scalable

napalm-automation / napalm-salt

Modules for event-driven network automation and orchestration using Salt

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Current solution is not scalable #63

Closed thugcee closed 5 years ago

thugcee commented 5 years ago

After few weeks of working on my server python3 /usr/bin/salt-proxy for ssh session takes 28.145 MB + 215.43 MB of VmRSS, so for not so big network of 400 devices it would need 97 GB of RAM just for a bunch of mostly idle processes.

Is there any chance to handle all devices by one proxy [in future versions]?

Salt version: 2019.2

barneysowood commented 5 years ago

You lose some on the benefits of always on proxies, but depending on your use case, salt-sproxy (https://mirceaulinic.net/2019-06-17-minionless-salt-automation/) might help. Or possibly https://github.com/gtmanfred/salt-proxies - although that hasn't had much development as far as I can see.

thugcee commented 5 years ago

@barneysowood, salt-sproxy is great! After having done configuration for proxy-minions I just had to pip install its package and voilà: everything works! Thank you for pointing me to the exhaustive tutorial.