[chef] Re: Re: My Wishlist: Better Chef-Solo Support

[Larry Wright < >]

I also use vagrant with chef-solo for testing, and while it's not perfect I would definitely say that it is far better than testing with chef server. 

That said, I would definitely love to see some improvements to chef-solo, such as being able to bootstrap a server with it, support for search, etc.

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Larry Wright

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Brian Demers wrote:

+1

I use vagrant with chef-solo for testing and I cannot say I would highly recommend it.

Vagrant + chef-solo-search + Berkshelf + isn't too bad, but still, if I finde a 'node.save' I then need to hack up a recipe.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Torben Knerr < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Ohai Chefs,

are you cooking solo?

I'm trying to figure out a sane way of working with Chef-solo, thereby came across lots of useful projects aiming to make the Chef-solo experience better, e.g.:

 * https://github.com/matschaffer/knife-solo

 * https://github.com/tobami/littlechef

 * https://github.com/edelight/chef-solo-search

 * ...

They add features which are currently missing from Chef solo, e.g.

 * data_bags (also encrypted data_bags) 

 * search (within node and data_bags)

 * environments support

There is also a proof of concept which integrates knife-solo with the `knife bootstrap` command by passing a `--solo` option, which lets you transparently use knife-ec2, knife-rackspace, etc. (name any plugin which uses `knife bootstrap`) with Chef solo as well.

It seems to me that there is much demand for better Chef-solo integration in the community, but unfortunately this is not there yet and you have to cherry-pick specific patches from the approaches above if you want a better Chef solo experience.

I'd really love to see these approaches being integrated into core Chef and have a single and consistent way of working with it.

Is there anything that prevents this from happening or is it just that nobody had done it yet?

Cheers, Torben