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

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Roland Moriz 
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> 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].
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> 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.

Yeah... we've contemplated this in ChefDK (some wag has called it
"Ansible mode"). Thanks for the feedback. I'm not certain we'd ingest
the existing tools directly, but the workflow idea is a nice one.

- Julian

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