[chef] Re: Re: Feelings on chef

[Marcus Bointon < >]

On 4 May 2010, at 14:59, Lee Azzarello wrote:

> As someone who has an installation with more than 10 nodes and a full
> chef-server, it scales pretty good so the complexity paid off.

I meant that sufficient performance to support say, 100 nodes, could probably 
be achieved using flat text files. For the majority of cases, this is not big 
and complex stuff, and all the hard work happens on the client anyway. The 
infrastructure design of chef-server seems tuned for the case where you're 
deploying to enough nodes to warrant >> 1 chef-server instances (i.e. tens of 
thousands of nodes)... Sure it will work fine for smaller deployments too, 
but it's a very big software stack for the job.

> The cool part about the chef server and client is they communicate using a
> REST interface that is well documented. This means a new server
> implementation that isn't built to scale to a large network of nodes
> is possible with an existing light weight web application framework
> like Sinatra.

That's exactly what I was thinking - has anyone built such a thing?

Marcus
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