[chef] Re: Re: How do you manage multiple data centers

[Brian Akins < >]

We use a chef-server per data center (well, 2 chef servers: active/passive). Nodes figure out what datacenter they are in inside our base recipe. We use the same cookbooks across all datacenters and use some scripts and berkshelf to keep all the orgs up to date. No roles or environments, but if we did use them, we'd do something similar. We have some search wrapper magic that can ping search on other chef servers - this is still a work in progress and is used sparingly (database replication, etc).