Chef Enterprise Now Free Up to 25 Nodes
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Sure, Chef is cross-platform. Might be more useful on Windows than on Linux, in fact. Linux has more built in management than Windows does out of the box. If you are using SCCM on Windows, then Chef likely doesn't make sense. But if you don't have SCCM, Chef is a "free" replacement for it.
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That is great that Chef is expanded. Twenty-five is enough hosts to really make it useful for most any small firm.
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WOW.. $6/node/month - that stings!
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Guess I need to learn more about it, but am not sure if it would help us.
But maybe right now isn't the time to look into it as I need to deal with the Domain, AD and security issues first. -
@g.jacobse said:
Guess I need to learn more about it, but am not sure if it would help us.
But maybe right now isn't the time to look into it as I need to deal with the Domain, AD and security issues first.Does very little for SMBs. Even shops with hundreds of hosts often see no benefit. All depends on your workload types.
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@Dashrender said:
WOW.. $6/node/month - that stings!
That includes hosting if you want. It's not bad for what you get. Remember this is enterprise server management.
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Their video is very marketing oriented. Doesn't give any real technical info on what it actually does. Everything on there site is very vague. That's one of my pet peeves. Just tell me what the thing does on your site already..
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It runs an agent on every server that applies a set of policies to control the node. Like putting files in place, configuring settings, deploying software, etc.
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Unfortunately the 25 free is the on premise only not the hosted version. That remains limited to five.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
WOW.. $6/node/month - that stings!
That includes hosting if you want. It's not bad for what you get. Remember this is enterprise server management.
OHHH it's servers only.. ok that's different.
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I have wondered why people never use it for desktops. But I suppose because of GPO and the obviousness of logging in locally. With chef the idea is that you never log into a server at all. Ever.
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I think that we are going to move from the free version to the enterprise one now that it is free for so many nodes.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I think that we are going to move from the free version to the enterprise one now that it is free for so many nodes.
Huh? That sounds backwards based on the last part.
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Not sure that I follow. Because the number of free nodes is now so high, we can leverage the full enterprise version at the same cost as the free version.
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@scott, did the 'old' free version not have the same tools as Enterprise did? But now the Free version is the same version as the Enterprise, it's just free for nodes less than 25?
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@Dashrender said:
@scott, did the 'old' free version not have the same tools as Enterprise did? But now the Free version is the same version as the Enterprise, it's just free for nodes less than 25?
Correct, free used to be a small subset of the tools. Like no real interface and not multi-tenant.
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Here is the announcement...
http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/09/08/there-is-one-chef-server-and-it-is-open-source/
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It is the enterprise / premium features that are limited to 25 nodes (on the honor system.) The base server is completely open source and unlimited.
