[chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Single chef server vs. multiple chef servers - pros and cons?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Fouts, Chris wrote:

> Thanks Phil, I’m doing this NOW, and yes, I’m disciplined enough to update 
> my metadata.rb files, and to pick up the correct version in my 
> environments. However, one flaw of Chef (IMO) is that environments and 
> roles are not versioned, so someone can upload an environment with a bad 
> cookbook version to the Chef server. IOW, there is no built-in Chef 
> mechanism to catch this “easy to screw up” process.
>  
> Chris

This isn’t viable in the short term, but we’re working on some features to 
address these problems (the “Policyfile” feature mentioned earlier in this 
thread). There’s a lot of information in the release announcement for ChefDK 
0.3.0: 
https://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/10/02/chefdk-0-3-0-released-introducing-policyfiles/

I can’t give you a timeline for when we expect this to be production ready, 
but it’s something you might wish to consider if you’re considering making 
drastic changes to your workflow.

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Daniel DeLeo