1. Proposed title of this feature request
Include the splay option to the puppet configuration.

2. Who is the customer behind the request?
None

3. What is the nature and description of the request?
If splay is not configured it can happen that hunderds/thousands of clients start checking in at the same time to satellite for puppet which causes satellite to become slow and unresponsive.

For example, without splay enabled, your agent checks in every 30 minutes at :01 and :31 past the hour. After enabling splay, the agent will wait the pseudorandom sleep time, say eight minutes, and then check in every 30 minutes, at :09 and :39 after the hour. If you restart the same agent at 12:45 PM, it will wait its eight minutes, and check in at 12:52 PM, and every 30 minutes after that, at 1:22 PM, 1:52 PM, and so on. Other agents will have different sleep times, and so will check in at different times even if they are all restarted at the same time.


4. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements
here) When splay is configured this will prevent clients from checking in at the same time and still respect the interval for the puppet runs. 

5. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional
requirements here)
Add splay to config for puppet, https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/configuration.html#splay

6. For each functional requirement listed in question 5, specify how Red
Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully
implemented.
Add "splay = true" to /etc/puppet/puppet.conf and verify the sleep time before the puppet agent does its first run. (needs debug option enabled)

7. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla?
No

8. Does the customer have any specific timeline dependencies?
No

9. Is the sales team involved in this request and do they have any
additional input?
No

10. List any affected packages or components.
# puppet --version
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2.7.23
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