Re: Typical use of chef

[Bryan McLellan <btm@loftninjas.org>]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Miguel Cabeça <cabeca@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> Am I alone in using chef as a configuration tool for any type of server
> (mail, ldap, kerberos, gateway, router) or workstation in an academic
> scenario?

We use configuration management for all of our linux servers and
workstations. In our network Chef is slowly replacing puppet/iclassify
as services need to be redeployed. We do have a web based product, but
that isn't a line of delineation between servers that are managed with
CM and those that are not. There's a number of great reasons for using
CM in regular system administration, It will likely be some time
before more people try CM and accept these benefits. I certainly
wouldn't work for a shop without it again.

Bryan