[chef] Re: Evaluating Chef for our company.

[Jacobo García < >]

Managing many companies with one server is difficult, the exception is
to use opscode platform which already has support for different
companies, see this recent thread for a more in depth explanation:

http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2010-10/msg00084.html

The rest of it should not be a problem.

Greetings.

Jacobo García López de Araujo
blog: http://robotplaysguitar.com
http://workingwithrails.com/person/13395-jacobo-garc-a




On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:21 AM,  
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 >
 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have an operation consulting company, and I want to start using Chef to
> manage all our customer's production servers. I'm trying to figure out if 
> this
> is the right project for my use case. Can someone please tell me which of 
> the
> requirements below is included in Chef and which are not:
>
> * Manage many companies on one server with restricting ACL, No company 
> should
> even know of the existence of the other companies. On the other hand, each
> company should be able to manage it's resources.
>
> * Have a web-ui to manage the setup above.
>
> * Each customer should be able to get his chef repository (all scripts,
> cookbooks, etc) from us and choose another company (like Opscode) as their
> server without much trouble.
>
> From what I understood from the little I've read, I can do most of it, but I
> want to be sure before I dig too deep.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Haim
>