[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: One Client Many Nodes?

[Marcus Bointon < >]

On 23 Jul 2010, at 11:23, Jon Wood wrote:

> This sounds to me like a feature that was almost accidently
> implemented, as a side effect of being able to specify the
> configuration file. I can't think of any situation in which I'd want
> multiple nodes on one machine, if only because of the risk of them
> getting stuck in a loop of overriding each other's decisions.


The example I saw for multiple nodes per client was for configuring nodes 
that can't run chef directly (e.g. firewalls and routers), so another node 
acts as a kind of proxy.

Marcus
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