[chef] Re: Re: Chef Metal vs. Vagrant

[Torben Knerr < >]

Hi Julian,

thanks, indeed Vagrant is focused on virtual machines only, good to
know where Chef Provisioning is heading to.

While at first I couldn't find the additional resources in
opscode/chef-provisioning itself, I found them in
opscode/chef-provisioning-aws [1].

Is the intention to provide some common abstractions (e.g for cloud
queues, object storage, load balancers, etc) like Vagrant does for
virtual machines too? Or is the aim to simply provide a higher level
configuration DSL in favor of the specific commandline tools?

Cheers,
Torben

[1] 
https://github.com/opscode/chef-provisioning-aws/tree/master/lib/chef/resource



On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Julian C. Dunn 
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> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Torben Knerr 
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>  wrote:
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>> with the recent blog post about "Chef Provisioning" I believe this
>> means that chef-metal went live:
>> https://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/11/12/chef-provisioning-infrastructure-as-code
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> Yes, just to be clear, "Chef Provisioning" is what was previously
> known as "Chef Metal". We renamed it because there was confusion in
> that it isn't just to automate bare metal.
>
>> Something I was always wondering about: there seems to be a huge
>> overlap between Chef Metal and Vagrant -- is this by intent? Which
>> gaps does chef-metal try to fill and what can I do with chef-metal
>> that I can't do well with vagrant?
>
> Chef Provisioning is intended to be a platform that'll allow you to
> automate all aspects of your stack. For example, if you're in AWS,
> various AWS objects like SNS topics, SQS queues, IAM users, ELBs, etc.
> can be managed. Vagrant doesn't have those capabilities; it deals only
> with machines.
>
> There are also other features like parallelization (via the
> machine_batch resource) that Vagrant won't have.
>
> Those are some of the things I can think of, off the top of my head.
>
> - Julian
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