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Be weary of Chef if you plan on any kind of autoscaling. We had to deploy some pretty big hacks to get around some core assumptions in chef in order to use AWS
by milesvp 9y ago
Be weary of Chef if you plan on any kind of autoscaling. We had to deploy some pretty big hacks to get around some core assumptions in chef in order to use AWS autoscaling.
On the other had we did make autoscaling work with chef. Not sure how any of the others would fare since a relatively static server list was a pretty safe assumption until about 6 years ago.
- citruspi 9y agoWhat kind of issues did you face using Chef and autoscaling? We use Chef to configure servers which are managed by an AWS autoscaling group without any issues.
- milesvp 9y agoI may not know enough specifics to be useful, but we ran into issues where the solution was to sort of have servers spin up and bootstrap themselves until they could finally locate and cede control to the chef server. It may have had something to do with how we use AMIs but the way our ops engineer talked about it it seemed to be antithetical to how chef is intended to be used.