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

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

While we're generally using Chef Server for the rest of the infrastructure, we do use Solo to build ephemeral Jenkins node images for EC2, which I can then snapshot into an AMI. Example: developers want "phantomjs" on a Jenkins box to do JS unit testing, so I add it to Chef and kick a solo run on a bare node.

It does drive me crazy when cookbook authors require Chef Server functionality to accomplish basic tasks. For instance, we've forked & modified the Jenkins cookbook significantly because of its assumption that you can query for the node with the Jenkins master role to retrieve the SSH key.

- Julian

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Sean OMeara < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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

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