There are several configurations available for Puppet Enterprise. The configuration you use depends on the number of nodes in your environment and the resources required to serve agent catalogs.
Configuration | Description | Node limit |
---|---|---|
Monolithic installation (Recommended) | All infrastructure components are installed on the master. This installation type is the easiest to install, upgrade, and troubleshoot. | Up to 4,000 |
Monolithic installation with compilers | Similar to a monolithic installation, plus one or more compilers and a load balancer which help distribute the agent catalog compilation workload. | 4,000–20,000 |
Monolithic installation with compilers and standalone PE-PostgreSQL | Similar to a monolithic installation with compilers, plus a separate node which hosts the PE-PostgreSQL instance. | More than 20,000 |
Monolithic installation

Monolithic installation with compilers

Monolithic installation with compilers and standalone PE-PostgreSQL
