[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: suggestions for upcoming community summit

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Nov 2, 2011, at 2:08 AM, Ranjib Dey wrote:

> +1 for live streaming.

I'm more on the fence.  What would you stream?  A single camera out in the 
lobby area? A single camera in each room?  A camera every ten feet?

I might be interested in seeing videos of the presentations (with access to 
copies of the slides), but how much of the summit is going to be 
presentations versus discussions, bull sessions, and the "hallway track"?  
How much of that discussion might be totally irrelevant in a month or six?

> -1 for certification. I dont kniw if certification really helps, at least 
> at this stage

Agreed.  Discussion regarding certification is appropriate for relatively 
mature products in a relatively mature space.  Chef and DevOps are neither.

> As of now, i prefer to off load the decision making of which chef server to 
> use (hosted or on premise ) on the clients. But i try to encourage adopting 
> opscode chef-server initially if the requirement is low (less than 5 nodes) 
> and if that adds value they can go ahead and change the engagement plan.. 
> will love to hear how other are working,,

IMO, a lot depends on who the clients are.  For certain categories of 
clients, getting the lowest possible barrier to entry is key.  For example, 
anyone who just wants to play around with it and see what they can get it to 
do for them, or who isn't working in an industry where terms like SarbOx & 
PCI-DSS are used on a daily basis.  Or anyone who already has most or all of 
their stuff "in the cloud".

Installing and operating your own local chef-server is a non-trivial task 
with a fairly high barrier to entry, if all you're going to do is use that to 
deploy and manage five nodes.

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Brad Knowles 
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