[chef] Re: Can you recommend a command-and-control tool?

[Grig Gheorghiu < >]

If I may also recommend LittleChef: https://github.com/tobami/littlechef

It's a combo fabric + chef-solo.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Mike Williams
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 wrote:
> I'm helping a client rebuild their configuration management and software 
> deployment tooling, and we have Chef successfully doing both ... but only 
> on a per-node basis.  Now I'm looking to add a layer above Chef, to 
> orchestrate software/platform updates across a data-center, in a controlled 
> fashion.
>
> Any recommendations?  Has anyone successfully used something like 
> mcollective or nanite, with Chef,  to do this kind of orchestration?  Do 
> recipes exist to install these?  (The opscode repo contains a nanite 
> cookbook, but it appears to be deprecated).  Or, do most people find "knife 
> exec" sufficient?
>
> --
> cheers,
> Mike Williams
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