[chef] Re: Re: Re: should I be using chef?

[Jake Vanderdray < >]

Brad,

  How do you mange your validator PEM?  Do you end up doing the
initial install for the developers and put the PEM on manually, or do
you openly share the validator within your organization?

  We're testing out using Vagrant instances for developers that get
built with our normal chef cookbooks.  I'd love to just be able to
point people at a wiki page of instructions and let it be self-serve.

Thanks,
Jake.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Brad Knowles 
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> On Dec 26, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:
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>> To my knowledge, most people managing workstations are using chef-solo, 
>> with developers updating the recipes at their leisure. This implies that 
>> your developers would get comfortable with basic Chef usage, but if 
>> workstation setup is a one-shot deal this isn't strictly required.
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> We're using Chef for our servers, but we're also going to be using Chef for 
> our development systems.  We'll install those machines just like regular 
> servers (so that the developers get a working copy of a production system). 
> but once we've done the initial install what we will be doing is removing 
> the roles & recipes from the run_list that pertain to the development 
> they're doing.
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> So, as I add new stuff to our "role[base]", it will get incorporated out 
> onto all machines, both production and development, and those development 
> machines will continue to stay current on the configuration for everything 
> except what the developer is actually working on.
>
> I do believe that this is the "best of both worlds" combination.
>
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> Brad Knowles 
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