MCollective Components, Terminology and Flow

I often see some confusion about terminology in use in MCollective, what the major components are, where software needs to be installed etc.

I attempted to address this in a presentation and screen cast covering:

• What middleware is and how we use it.
• The major components and correct terminology.
• Anatomy of a request life cycle.
• And an actual look inside the messages we sent and receive.

You can grab the presentation from Slideshare or view a video of it on blip.tv. Below find an embedded version of the slideshare deck including audio. I suggest you view it full screen as there’s some code in it.