[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Bootstrap templates

["Jason J. W. Williams" < >]

A dedicated repo for knife bootstrap templates would be great. It
would be very helpful to have one place to go to look for the
bootstrap for your OS of choice.

-J

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Bryan McLellan 
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 wrote:
> We're happy with the success of moving the knife cloud providers into
> separate projects, particularly with the increased release cycle for
> the more active ones. We have found ourselves on a similar decision
> path for bootstrap templates. There is a desire to add more operating
> system bootstrap templates [1] to the project, and with that brings
> the possibility of managing many templates that are difficult for us
> to test regularly. How should we manage the matrix of multiple
> operating systems, releases and installation methods?
>
> Our one idea so far is to fork most or all of the bootstrap templates
> into a knife-bootstrap project. There's a little reluctance of the
> overhead of another project, but it seems like it would be a net win.
> Thoughts?
>
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> [1] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2403
>