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

[Martin Cleaver < >]

Y, I mentioned these other Hashicorp projects while at Chef Community Summit, didn't really come away with an answer of what I should consider the differentiator of where Chef Inc and Hashicorp are headed.

Time will tell!

Best,

   Martin 

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Sören Blom < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

furthermore there is Terraform (http://terraform.io) by Hashicorp that comes a little closer to Chef Provisioning / Heat / CloudFormation than Vagrant. It has multiple providers (AWS, Digital Ocean) and can run provisioning on each of the nodes (just like Vagrant), including Chef as an option. Still under heavy development but I am currently using it in a project and am quite happy.

Sören

2014-11-18 7:10 GMT+01:00 Torben Knerr < " target="_blank"> >:

Yes, would be interesting to hear what John Keiser thinks on this.

There is also the Heat DSL (driven by the OpenStack community) which aims exactly at an abstract definition of cloud infrastructures (think of a more generic AWS cloudformation).

Cheers, Torben

Am 18.11.2014 03:56 schrieb "Julian C. Dunn" < " target="_blank"> >:

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Torben Knerr < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

> 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?

I'm not sure. John Keiser would be the best person to answer.
However... I have talked to some folks about this and they've warned
us off the idea, because there is actually less commonality than you
might think amongst the cloud providers.

Since I don't have broad operational experience with anything beyond
AWS I thought I'd merely relate that. If anyone can weigh in, we'd
certainly welcome the feedback.

- Julian

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