Re: Typical use of chef

[Joshua Timberman <joshua@opscode.com>]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Miguel Cabeça 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?


I hope you're not alone! As Bryan said, configuration management is  
important for the whole environment, not just web servers/services.

This is one reason we have non-web-specific cookbooks in the opscode/ 
cookbooks repository. We understand that people may want to run DNS  
servers (djbdns, maradns), central authentication (openldap), mail  
servers and relays (postfix), HA clusters (heartbeat, drbd),  
centralized logging (rsyslog), internal ticketing systems (jira,  
redmine), VPN (openvpn) and yes, even voice communications  
(teamspeak :-D).

Except perhaps the latter, these are all common infrastructure  
services, and we provided the cookbooks as a baseline for people to  
modify for their own environments. Not necessarily just Ruby on Rails  
environments.

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