[chef] General questions about provision/kickstart!

[Sven Sternberger < >]

Hello!

we are examine alternatives to our legacy CM infrastructure.
I'm little bit puzzled about which parts chef plays.

I would look at cobbler vs. foreman for
provisioning and Chef vs. puppet for CM. But is
this correct? Could chef do the provisioning without
cobbler/foreman? What is "best practice" to provision
servers.

We are mainly using Scientific Linux (RHEL-Clone) and
a little bit ubuntu.

Any help would be appreciated.

regards

sven