[chef] Re: Re: Embedded Chef

[Jonathan Weiss < >]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:52 PM, AJ Christensen 
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 wrote:
> What does this buy you over using Chef (at least Chef Solo)? directly?

I was thinking about writing a small agent for mcollective that would
allow me to query packages and services, much like those puppet
agents:

http://code.google.com/p/mcollective-plugins/wiki/AgentService
http://code.google.com/p/mcollective-plugins/wiki/AgentPackage

I want to be able to know if a certain service is running or if a
certain package is installed. Running Chef-Solo just for this taks
seems like a  big overhead and I would have to parse the output as I
want to return the status to the requesting mcollective client.

Jonathan

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