[chef] RHN, Cobbler and Chef

[Craig Cook < >]

I am looking for some provisioning guidance…

 

We have a  Red Hat Satellite server installed, but not well used/configured yet.

 

I’m not sold that RHN is the best solution for us.

 

I want Chef to be the “backbone” app that manages our Red Hat servers, packages, config files, services, etc.

 

Should RHN manage general OS packages and chef do specific things?

 

e.g.  I have a apache role, assign it to a server.  Part of the role says what version of apache to use.  Should that functionality live in cobbler/RHN instead?

 

Should we have a “production” repo that contains all packages and have chef ensure what is locally installed matches the production repo?  Should that be RHN’s job?

 

Is this a “it depends” type answer?

 

Craig