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Well, in theory, chef is great. You can unit test your configuration (which in ansible isn't really practical due to its dynamic nature). You can get completio

Well, in theory, chef is great. You can unit test your configuration (which in ansible isn't really practical due to its dynamic nature). You can get completion in your editor... In practice, though, you write a lot more code and have to comprehend more. Also have a look at community cookbooks, most stuff is very old. I think chef have totally killed their community by doing that stupid EULA move. https://docs.chef.io/versions/ https://docs.chef.io/versions/

gscho 6y ago
> Also have a look at community cookbooks, most stuff is very old. A lot of the functionality offered by community cookbooks made it way into the core DSL. Most community cookbooks for installing applications were abandoned for other approaches though. >I think chef have totally killed their community by doing that stupid EULA move. I agree. Seems like they tried to move to the "redhat model" without having a centos style OSS version. CINC has come along and filled that gap: https://cinc.sh/ https://cinc.sh/