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[chef] Fwd: Resource ordering in chef v. puppet


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  • From: Peter Burkholder <pburkholder@gmail.com>
  • To: chef@lists.opscode.com
  • Subject: [chef] Fwd: Resource ordering in chef v. puppet
  • Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:49:57 -0400
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I honestly don't want to start a firefight but I'm trying to evaluate
Chef v. Puppet for my workplace, and trying to learn from the
experience of others what I cannot learn from testing in a small
environment.

I asked this question a few days ago on the Puppet-Users list:

>I just finished listening to the Configuration Management panel from
> OSBridge (on blip.tv).
>
> Near the end of it, Adam Jacob states that Puppet's resource dependency
> ordering is non-deterministic,
> and that manifests that work fine 19 times will fail the 20th time.
>
> Is this true?

and the thread is at
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/50046ba7d5566eb3?hl=en

Anyhow, the gist is that Puppet gets it right if one has been thorough
in modelling the dependencies.

Would anyone on this list care to offer an alternative view on
resource ordering vs. recipe ordering (which is my understanding of
how Chef handles this)?

Thanks,

Peter
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