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The huge advantage to Chef is that it's just ruby, where as Puppet has it's own syntax for recipes. Another light-weight alternative for configuring new server
by lox 16y ago
The huge advantage to Chef is that it's just ruby, where as Puppet has it's own syntax for recipes.
Another light-weight alternative for configuring new servers is Babushka: http://babushka.me/ http://babushka.me/
- WALoeIII 16y agoPuppet (as of 2.6) has a pure Ruby DSL. Puppet and Chef are rapidly converging on the same feature set, at this point its like arguing .rpm vs .deb. There are certainly differences and if you spend a ton of time with both tools you will have a favorite, but fundamentally they both serve the same purpose and will enable you to get the job done.