[chef] Re: Re: Re: Evaluating Chef for our company.

[Jacobo García < >]

I am not sure on the alternative you mentioned, probably you'll have
to develop something similar of opscode platform, at least the
approach other people in this list are taking is multiple servers,
this is mentioned in some recent threads if my memory does not fail.


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




On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Haim Ashkenazi
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> Hi
>
> Thanks for the quick response. This is not good news though :(
> How much of a hassle it is to use the same resources (couchdb, solr, etc) 
> and only use multiple instances of chef server on the same physical server 
> (on different ports)? Provided of course that I will have to write the 
> web-ui myself? I'm afraid running full (virtual) machine as a server for 
> each customer might be too much overhead.
>
> Thanks
>
> Haim
>
> On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Jacobo García wrote:
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>> 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
>>>
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