[chef] Re: Chef 12.1 + audit mode + chef-solo?

[Roland Moriz < >]

Hi,

Am 10.03.2015 um 06:23 schrieb Adam Jacob 
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 >:

> And because this has come up in the past, and I want to be absolutely clear:
> 
> 1) Only when local mode is a safe, complete super-set of Solo will we 
> switch - that (likely) means a mode that doesn't include binding to a port.
> 2) chef-solo, the binary, will always exist.
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Julian C. Dunn 
> <
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>  wrote:
> Just to be clear, our intended roadmap relevant to audit mode is:
> 
> 1. Implement RFC031 to replace Solo entirely with Zero.
> https://github.com/chef/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc031-replace-solo-with-local-mode.md
> 2. Implement some mechanism for Chef Client talking in audit mode to a
> Zero "server" to feed its audit data somewhere (Chef Analytics)
> 
> HTH,
> Julian
> 
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Lamont Granquist 
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>  wrote:
> >
> > No, but this is another example of why chef-client -z is better than
> > chef-solo.  There's a few dozen other priorities when doing code review 
> > that
> > have higher mental priority than chef solo users and the double-patching 
> > to
> > support chef-solo often slips through the cracks.  Peer review is done by
> > humans and is never perfect. Its not deliberate, but its predictable that
> > issues like this will continue to happen to chef-solo and it will lag
> > behind.


Okay, I really understand that chef-solo is deprecated, however knife-solo 
was a nice way to roll out chef in small setups where neither an in-house 
chef-server nor hosted-chef was an option.
I personally like knife-zero very much (see 
https://github.com/higanworks/knife-zero) which combines the benefits of 
"chef-client -z" with a "server-less" setup like knife-solo did in the past.
However migration from knife-solo to knife-zero isn't done easily, because 
chef-zero crashes with the "chef-solo-search" cookbook somewhere in the 
dependency list [1].

Anyhow, would really appreciate, if Chef, Inc. would support such an 
entry-level solution because it's significant for the community usage of chef 
and the low entry-barrier for non-enterprise users.

regards
Roland


[1] https://github.com/chef/chef-zero/issues/118 ;
https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen/issues/591

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