btmspox

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by btmspox 7y ago
Chef Automate was not previously open source but will be.
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by btmspox 14y ago
Always appreciate bugs being filed. I did a little pondering on the ticket the other day. Since we're using update-rc.d, we're likely talking about debian package install, which means that we could probably set the defaults correctly with u
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by btmspox 14y ago
A large part of that was an unfortunate side-affect of gecode (a library Chef used for dependency resolution in Chef 10) not having a -nox package, thus pulling in libqt4-dev, which then spirals out of control. The chef-server cookbook used
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by btmspox 14y ago
Do it early, for many reasons. I worked as a systems administrator for startups before we wrote Chef, and I wouldn't go back to managing infrastructure by hand. A few reasons: * You don't have to maintain that database manually, Chef collec
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by btmspox 14y ago
I'm sorry you feel that you didn't have a good experience. As one of the original Chef contributors before Opscode, and then becoming one of the lead people working with the open source community for Opscode, the vitality of the open source
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by btmspox 14y ago
It was a comical github issue related to @shanley basically accusing @csanz and @rekatz of @gklst of sexism. Someone has put a screenshot of the github issue here: http://imgur.com/a/cfblx#7 Geeklist has since issued an apology: http://
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by btmspox 15y ago
The importance of the Chef DSL is abstracting away common system interactions and most importantly, all the edge cases that come up. Whatever you are automating, you're going to be installing packages, starting services, and creating config
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by btmspox 15y ago
If package management was as a happily solved of a problem as you imply, I think we would see fewer solutions out there. Each tends to solve for the needs of its own environment, users, and sometimes the whims and bias of its developers. Wh
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by btmspox 15y ago
Opinions of Rubygems differ greatly and I would consider cargo culting gems as a distribution and dependency management infrastructure for Chef cookbooks to only be great for those who are strong with Ruby. Each community has its own requir