[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Feelings on chef

[Haselwanter Edmund < >]

On 04.05.2010, at 16:59, Joshua Sierles wrote:

> The chef setup is complex, but the search functionality is by far the most 
> useful piece. We totally depend on this, and it would be harder to make it 
> work without the server implementation as it is. For example, nagios 
> checks, internal DNS and haproxy rules for applications are all configured 
> directly from search results.
> 
> The client/server setup is cumbersome, but using chef itself to bootstrap 
> those makes this a painless process.

but to get started and used to the chef-way it is much more easier to start 
with chef-solo. search is powerful, yes. but if 
you don't live in a too dynamic world you can provide this kind of 
information within the json arguments. or, like the guys 
at poolpartyrb "calculate" and pass the params.

> 
> Joshua

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