syndic architecture does not scale

[tsaridas]

Description of Issue

When having multiple syndics with a large number of minion connecting to different syndics saltstack syndic tries to send commands (tcp connection to salt-master) for all of them even if the minion does not exist.

After syndic sends the command then salt-master does figure out which minions are but this is not very performant.

I suggest to check if master has the minion key on the salt-syndic at least for targeting with list so that syndic avoids connecting to salt-master.

The performance issue does not show with small number of minions.

Setup

salt-master (mom) -> syndic -> minion

Steps to Reproduce Issue

not applicable

Versions Report

All versions

[waynew]

I believe that this may be improved in the deltaproxy work that @garethgreenaway is working on.

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[tsaridas]

solution is quite simple to this for list targeting. @garethgreenaway can you please comment if I should close the ticket or keep it open ?

[stale]

Thank you for updating this issue. It is no longer marked as stale.

[sagetherage]

At this time @tsaridas the Core team won't be working on scaling the syndic architecture in salt, you can find this in our Enterprise solution or you can open a PR for review. I will leave this open, and the Stale bot configuration will skip it with the labelFeature attached. I have also moved it to approved, but only if the community wants to submit PRs for this work at this time. Thank you!