On 11/04/2009 12:47 AM, Tracy Phillips wrote:
Chef showed up on my radar this morning. Have you seen it or used it. Looks pretty promising.
I use Chef as well, and it is quite interesting in that it allows you to essentially have a systems management object in a proper language ( Ruby in this case ) rather than a DSL ( like puppet ). And while this is its strength, its also - imho - a massive weakness.
If you have a few machines, and dont mind getting into installing and managing a boat load of associated code, Chef is worth looking into. If you are a large scale enterprise or a business where employing sysadmins who are also expected to be moderately fluent in Ruby. I'd give Chef a miss for the time being. There are a few wrappers being developed around chef, none of which look mature enough to use. Wait for something to come through those lines first.