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Oh, ansible, I like ansible. I even maintain this: https://github.com/radekg/terraform-provisioner-ansible https://github.com/radekg/terraform-provisioner-ansib
by rad_gruchalski 8y ago
Oh, ansible, I like ansible. I even maintain this: https://github.com/radekg/terraform-provisioner-ansible https://github.com/radekg/terraform-provisioner-ansible.
But chef is a completely different beast. For those who can digest ruby (as I do), chef is still a fantastic choice. I have fond memories of chef. Written countless cookbooks, recipes and bootstrapped thousands of machines with it. Having full power of ruby at one’s disposal can’t be underestimated. But one has to appreciate ruby first ;)
- h1d 8y ago> Having full power of ruby at one’s disposal That's when your config becomes unmaintainably large and complicated with personal taste.
- rad_gruchalski 8y agoWhich it often does. Our platform had 70 VMs and many operational dependencies bewteen them. Not everybody handles 5 containers per project.