What is Chef?
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I spent the last two days (yesterday and today) taking a formal Chef class directly from OpsCode. So I'm decently versed in the basics.
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Chef, or Puppet, et. al., make for good home projects too. Many of them are available for free. Chef has an unlimited use open source version and they have both a hosted and on premise non-open "Enterprise" version which is free for up to five servers under management. So for people to use at home it is extremely accessible. Nothing to stop someone from using it to manage their own home environment. Right now it supports Windows, Mac OSX, Solaris and most major Linux distros (RHEL family, Suse, Debian and Ubuntu formally but I've seen official Arch and other packages in there.) I've not seen BSD support but it might work, I don't know.
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Thanks for the information. Me too wondering what is Chef before..
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Thanks for the info.
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Chef and Puppet really seam to have come out on top as the two leading players in the DevOps / Cloud automation space. They get the vast majority of the media attention.
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Disappointed. I thought you were planning a career change involving cooking.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Disappointed. I thought you were planning a career change involving cooking.
Or this, love this show...
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Should I learn Chef or Puppet?
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Was that video at the Javits Center?
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@alexntg No Idea.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
Should I learn Chef or Puppet?
Good question. The answer is squarely... It depends.
Do you want hosted or on premise?
How many machines do you want to support?
Do you need a graphical interface?
What platforms do you want to support?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
Should I learn Chef or Puppet?
Good question. The answer is squarely... It depends.
Do you want hosted or on premise? On Prem
How many machines do you want to support? 25ish
Do you need a graphical interface? Yes.
What platforms do you want to support? Windows, and Linux.
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Glad to hear the conference went well! I think it's a great concept, I'm looking forward to seeing developments in that sector (expecially OpenCompute).
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
Should I learn Chef or Puppet?
Good question. The answer is squarely... It depends.
Do you want hosted or on premise? On Prem
How many machines do you want to support? 25ish
Do you need a graphical interface? Yes.
What platforms do you want to support? Windows, and Linux.
Then Puppet as Chef doesn't do graphical.
