[Chicago] Chef

[Tal Liron]

  Sure, you can write your scripts in any language. But, what of your 
script uses a Python 2.6 feature and you happen to be deploying to a 
platform that has 2.4? Welcome to the world of today, of major Linux 
distributions.

Of course, I'm recommending Bash here, but it has a lot of the same 
problems. There are differences between *BSD, GNU and Solaris userland 
that can make or break. I guess I prefer Bash because these differences 
are old, documented and stable. "Agile" languages are quickly moving 
targets for deployment.

My problem with Chef was first installing it: getting dependencies at 
their right versions, and then making sure that clients and servers had 
the exact same version, because Chef spits out strange error messages if 
it doesn't.

The promise of Chef/Puppet is really nice -- to abstract the painful 
differences between deployment targets. But I think the projects 
themselves have a ways to go.

-Tal

On 09/23/2010 09:03 AM, sheila miguez wrote:
>
> what happened?
>
> also, I thought people also wrote recipes in python?
>
>> On Sep 23, 2010 1:05 AM, "Tal Liron" <tal.liron at threecrickets.com 
>> <mailto:tal.liron at threecrickets.com>> wrote:
>>
>>  I had miserable experience getting Chef to actually work. And 
>> Puppet, too, for that matter. If you have to deploy your deployment 
>> solution, something is very wrong.
>>
>> Bash is ugly but portable and works. It pays to learn it well.
>>
>> -Tal
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/22/2010 08:12 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
>> >
>> > Does anyone here love Chef? Thinking about tossin...
>>
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