Re: Typical use of chef

[andy <andiacts@gmail.com>]

Hi Miguel,

I'm not using Chef in production, but my interest is the same as yours: general system administration for many non-web services.  Though my environment is non-academic (it's a software company making EDA software that designs chips for companies like Intel, Nokia, Sony, etc.), it's mostly software engineering, regression testing, QA, grid servers, benchmark servers, etc.

I want tools like Chef to displace the very sub-optimal "enterprise" tools out there.  Unfortunately, there is a bit of a perception problem when things are associated with the web as being a different beast in organizations like mine, but it's a conversation I'm used to having :D

Andy

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Miguel Cabeça <cabeca@ist.utl.pt> wrote:

Hi,

I was just wondering what is the typical use of chef for the users in this mailing list. It seems to me that the majority of chef's users are ruby shops, or otherwise web/lb/db companies with a hosting  or cloud infrastructure.

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?

Best Regards

Miguel Cabeça