[chef-dev] Re: Re: storing bootstrap templates in the chef server

[Joseph Holsten < >]

On 2013-09-12, at 15:10, Daniel DeLeo 
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 wrote:

> On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Joseph Holsten wrote:
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>> We've recently had to do some customization of our ubuntu, centos and 
>> windows bootstrap templates. While one of my coworkers was working on one 
>> he asked me, “So how do I upload this to the chef server?”
>> 
>> Does anyone else think it makes sense to store bootstrap templates in a 
>> chef server? Are there any disadvantages I'm not thinking of?
> I think you really want version control and all of the features it provides 
> (history, diffs, etc.) for this sort of thing. So if you're already sharing 
> it via version control, what's the benefit of distributing it by a 
> different mechanism as well?

Well I'd really like to be able to provision boxes from a command-and-control 
server (rundeck or something). It's annoying to have it pull a git repo just  
so it can have up-to-date bootstrap templates.
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~j

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