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Tangential question for people who've used both Ansible and Chef. I have most of our IaaS code in a decently large Chef repo. However it seems like that product
by dcolkitt 6y ago
Tangential question for people who've used both Ansible and Chef. I have most of our IaaS code in a decently large Chef repo. However it seems like that product is slowly circling the drain, and everyone's converging on Ansible. Should I be migrating over to Ansible now?
- krn1p4n1c 6y agoIt depends on your infra. If you're largely ephemeral hosts, then Ansible is ideal for single instance provisioning. Also if you're support windows hosts Ansible's support here is less than stellar, it's effectively a execute wrapper for running powershell scripts you have to write. If your hosts have a long duty-cycle Chef may still work better as it handles upgrades and MIA hosts coming back a bit better. I believe someone else in the comments mentioned the OSS project for it https//cinc.sh if you go that route. I've generally found Chef to scale better beyond 1000 nodes, up to about 100k.