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

[bradford < >]

Great replies.  Thanks, guys.

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Booker Bense 
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> 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.
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> 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 ).
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> - Booker C. Bense