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> and you can write Chef cookbooks in very clean Ruby you can, but in reality, this doesn't happen. especially for people who just want config management, and
by guitarbill 8y ago
> and you can write Chef cookbooks in very clean Ruby
you can, but in reality, this doesn't happen. especially for people who just want config management, and not to learn Ruby, or exactlty the "sysadmin/developer divide" as you've so aptly put it. all I got from Chef was loathing Ruby and all it's magic.
anyhow, the point was to illuminate how/why Ansible came about. i don't really like or use Ansible much anymore.
- eropple 8y agoIt happens where people hire me, man. ;) And many other places where I've been a consultant. Popped in, looked around, and went "hey, this is pretty good!". About...hm...30% of my Chef engagements were with messy codebases. Another 50% were fine. 20% were better than the applications they supported, and by a lot. I get that not everybody is a Ruby person. "Chef but in Python" probably would have done pretty well. But it is genuinely not that difficult and probably more widespread than people give it credit for being.