[chef] Re: Re: Chef noob question

[Dmitrii Golub < >]

In my small experience, 80% of cookbooks don't do what you really need.
Some of them are close to your requirements, so I often create new cookbook, 
based on open source.

On Sep 24, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Brad Knowles 
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> On Sep 23, 2013, at 4:36 PM, 
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>> Lots of info to read out there. Lots of different views and opinions.
>> I’d like to hear from the community some of the best ways to have Chef keep
>> our servers up to date.
>> For example, our BIND server. I want to use Chef to keep our version of 
>> BIND up
>> to date.
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> There's two parts to this process -- one is keeping the code itself 
> up-to-date, assuming that it has passed whatever verification process you 
> have internally before you roll it out to your production servers.
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> The other part is keeping up-to-date the information being served by BIND, 
> and I would be inclined to handle that separately.
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> Both can be fairly easily automated with the right cookbooks, and I believe 
> there are multiple examples available to you on the community site.
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