[chef] Re: Re: Chef Server vs Chef Solo and MCollective

[Booker Bense < >]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:13 AM, KC Braunschweig
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> - pull/push?
> When we did application deployment with chef at my last company we
> looked and puppet+mcollective first. What we found was that the push
> model we envisioned with mcollective we could basically do as a pull
> model with chef-server's built-in search api and it was much simpler
> to get started. We found people think they want push much more than is
> needed.

One thing to keep in mind is that is trivial to implement a "push when needed"
model on top of a primarily pull system. Doing the reverse of that is 
extremely
difficult ( i.e. using push to implement pull semantics ).

- Booker C. Bense