TStszming·Jul 3, 2013
There is a project called "littlechef" which allow you to use part of the chef-server's features without chef-server.
https://github.com/tobami/littlechef
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tobami / littlechef
littlechef
Cook with Chef without a Chef Server
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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
469GitHub stars
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Cook with Chef without a Chef Server
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Observed mentions: 2012-10-30 17:33:32 UTC to 2013-07-03 14:59:20 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 2012 | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2012 | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2012 | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2013 | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2013 | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2013 | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2013 | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2013 | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2013 | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesWhile I'm not a Chef fanboy, far from it, some of these comments are just not true.
"and does stuff like execute apt for each desired package on each node on each run". No you just need to set it up correctly so that it keeps the timestamp of the latest apt-get update, and does not refresh it within the next x hours.
"not self-hosted". Somewhat agreed, although you can easily get around this with the excellent https://github.com/tobami/littlechef
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