[chef-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: CHEF-2988 allowed_recipes, restricted_recipes, and override_recipes

[Ringo De Smet < >]

On 22 March 2012 23:28, Peter Donald < "> > wrote:

It seems like this is an attempt to jury-rig something onto the chef
model rather than changing the model. It seems like the use case is
actually adhoc execution of commands/resource installation using the
chef syntax? If so why not add the ability to distribute a one-shot
command to chef clients when needed. Then these application deploys
and/or apt-get upgrades or whatever could be run through this system
and regular infrastructure maintenance can continue to use the
existing approach. I think trying to merge the two approaches may lead
to a bit of complexity when adopting chef.

Tools to perform one-shot commands over a set of machines:

* http://rundeck.org/

* http://docs.puppetlabs.com/mcollective/

The latter can read Chef or Ohai metadata.

No need to change Chef for that.

Ringo