[chef] Re: Re: RE: Running chef in multiple environments

[James Le Cuirot < >]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:30:39 -0700
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> So, my point is something my colleague brought up recently - why run
> chef-client as a daemon on production runway at all? Why not run it on
> demand, such as when changes need to go out to production? From my
> experience anyway, our production runways never get any updates when
> they are actually serving production traffic, so it's safe to turn
> chef-client off to prevent any accidental promotion of cookbooks,
> environments, or roles to production.
> 
> That way you can keep using just one Chef server and keep using roles.

We haven't got to the point where this has become a problem yet but I
had been thinking the same thing. Not sure whether we'll take that
approach yet.