[chef] Re: Install Planning

[Jay Pipes < >]

On 12/14/2012 12:19 PM, Mark Pimentel wrote:
> Could anyone provide some insight as to the best way to manage chef in a
> multisite environment.
> 
> The desire seems to be to have a chef server local to each datacenter.

Yes, this is what we do.

> Is there any way to reliably sync the data between servers?

We don't. A site has data that is specific to the site. Data is loaded
into Chef from Git, so Git is always the source of truth, and Chef
should be able to be blown away on the management node in the site and
reloaded easily from Git. This gets us out of the sync'ing data game,
and enables us to use source control for handling configuration change
management.

Best,
-jay