[chef] Re: Chef server as a chef-client on itself ok?

[Nick Silkey < >]

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On Wednesday, October 9, 2013, Joshua Timberman  wrote:

It totally should. 

For a really extreme example, we manage hosted chef with chef (imagine that?), which uses a private chef server, which in turn uses chef solo (gotta start somewhere :)).

Monitoring the chef server for alerts and graph is important, and is presume whatever you're using internally is managed by chef with search so adding the server itself is a good plan. 

On Tuesday, October 8, 2013, Eric Feldhusen wrote:

Any reason I shouldn't have the Chef server be a client on itself?  I have a couple of recipes that we roll out to all servers, like a NRPE configuration for monitoring by Nagios and specific user accounts. 

Eric Feldhusen

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Joshua Timberman, Opscode, Inc.