[BIGTOP-1348] vagrant-puppet provisioning is too slow on installing packages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: deployment
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Evans Ye
• Created: 22/Jun/14 07:44
• Updated: 23/Jun/14 13:22
• Resolved: 23/Jun/14 13:22

Description

On my testing environment it tooks almost 50mins to provision a 3 node hadoop cluster using vagrant-puppet, and sometimes yum install might also failed due to timeout.
There's a great vagrant plugin called vagrant-cachier which will help to cache packages at local and reduce the network traffic when multiple VMs are going to install same packages. With vagrant-cachier enabled the provisioning process slightly reduced from 50mins to 20mins.