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Chef (and configuration management in general) is an anti-pattern for a cloud native approach. The soup of the Chef ecosystem has always seemed hard to underst
by mcdermott 8y ago
Chef (and configuration management in general) is an anti-pattern for a cloud native approach.
The soup of the Chef ecosystem has always seemed hard to understand (and teach new team members): Chef, Chef-solo/zero, rubocup, test kitchen, food critic, berkshelf automate, delivery druck, inspec, infa, etc...
With containers and immutable infrastructure there just isn't the need anymore. They obviously realized this and created Habitat as a response, but after trying it a few times, I don't see why I'd use it over plain old Docker + K8s.
If you still need configuration management, Ansible is more flexible, is easier to learn/teach (no need to learn Ruby), agentless, no need to run a sever and can also do some orchestration.
- yellowapple 8y ago> no need to learn Ruby Instead we'll just learn yet another ad-hoc language clumsily built atop YAML, and put up with Norway always being false when abbreviated. :)
- rmoriz 8y agoagentless is not a feature. System changes/breaks occur. agent-based approaches are a kind of "continuous validation" of your infrastructure.