Answer by PrestonM for Bootstrapping nodes and deploying without chef server
If your goal is to only run recipes on remote nodes (i.e. run arbitrary commands on a set of nodes) then chef may not be the correct tool for your particular use case. Chef is designed to run as an...
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If you want to run a recipe against a list of nodes from one source, you'll likely need to use an orchestration tool to assist in running/auditing these operations. I can personally vouch for rundeck....
View ArticleAnswer by Mrigesh Priyadarshi for Bootstrapping nodes and deploying without...
If you don't intend to use chef-server, you can use knife-solo from workstation. It has all the commands starting from initializing the chef-repo to converge on target node. knife solo init chef-repo...
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I'm looking to bootstrap some nodes and deploy to them, but I want to avoid having the overhead of a chef server. What are some of the options I can look into? I have a relatively static environment,...
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