[augeas-devel] Augeas and Puppet : Can I do a 'augshell / augtool connection pool'?

[Marc Fournier]

> The big overhead most people incur is that by default, Augeas reads
> pretty much any file under the sun, and most of those won't be used in
> any given puppet resource. So even though you're only
> changing /etc/hosts, Augeas still pulls in dozens of config files.
> 
> To avoid that, I added 'lens' and 'incl' parameters to the puppet
> type a while ago. If you set these, Augeas will only read a specific
> file, avoiding most of the unnecessary overhead.

Good to know, thanks for this David !

For those who might be interested: these 2 new parameters seem to be
available only in the 2.6 branch & releases of puppet.

Marc