Chef Enterprise Now Free Up to 25 Nodes
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There is one Chef Server, and it is Open Source?
Every premium feature we ship is now available, for free, to people managing less than 25 nodes. They can be installed directly from the Chef Server console. For users who are larger than 25 nodes, you can try any of those features free for 30 days. If you exceed those limits, we’ll present a message to you – and we won’t turn the functionality off. You use Chef to build core infrastructure: we trust that you’ll do the right thing, and we trust that if you need to use more, you have a good reason. If those features stop bringing you value, you can turn them off just as easily as you turned them on.?
http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/09/08/there-is-one-chef-server-and-it-is-open-source/?
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@Aaron-Studer - Please post more details than just a link to over there.
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@ajstringham Better?
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@scottalanmiller Will be happy about this
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Hey awesome. That's way bigger than before. Thanks!
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@scottalanmiller Is there any point in running Chef in a windows environment?
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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.
