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

[Sean OMeara < >]

I've always been curious about people using chef-solo in cluster
environments...

Why not just use a chef-server instead of moving mountains to to
replicate the functionality it provides?

I'm honestly curious about the use cases.

-s

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Torben Knerr 
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 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
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