![]() For instance, CouchDB, RabbitMQ messaging, Java, Solr, Ruby, OS-level dependencies, and web server configurations need to be set up/configured prior to setting up Chef on Ubuntu Linux. Setting up On Premises Chef is no simple task. Standard support is an additional $3 per node/month, and the premium version is $3.75 per node/month. ![]() With the release of Chef 11 in 2013, On Premises Chef has shifted away from a perpetual-license model to a monthly, per node model costing $6 per node/month- the same as Hosted Chef. And because On Premises Chef servers reside behind the customer’s own firewalls, the machines are shielded from any public global issues that may affect Hosted Chef customers. Faster rollout and better integration is also possible since the server is likely to be physically closer to the rest of the customer’s network. The main advantage over Hosted Chef, of course, is that full control over the server is maintained. ![]() With On Premises Chef, a Chef server to be run on-premises is provisioned by the customer. There is a small reprieve, however- as mentioned earlier, one can get the full Enterprise Hosted Chef on free trial basis for up to 5 nodes, 2 users, with no support included.Īnother point to keep in mind is that as a publicly exposed cloud service, Hosted Chef is vulnerable- as are all externally-facing cloud services- to nasty experiences over which one has no control like service outages and DDOS attacks. 100 nodes, 50 usersĪll these tiers are exceedingly expensive for most small and medium sized organizations. Standard package: $300/month, 50 nodes, 20 users.Launch package: $120/month, 20 nodes, 10 users.There is a price to pay for this, though- a steep price! Hosted Chef is priced as follows: ![]() No need to worry about hardware management and maintenance or software upgrades – one simply uploads the cookbooks and Chef does the rest. In this mode one’s cookbooks, roles and node definitions are stored in a scalable, cloud-based Chef server provisioned by Chef, Inc. Hosted Chef is one flavor of the Enterprise offering. There’s also Opsworks, the tweaked version of Chef developed by Amazon specifically for use with AWS. There are a few more variants, such as Chef Solo: a decentralized, serverless mode of Chef, akin to a peer-to-peer Windows network with no domain controller. Open Source Chef is free but with comes with no support and without many of the useful add-ons available in the enterprise versions.Minimal assistance and support for server provisioning is available. On Premises (Private) Chef is the enterprise version, but implemented within a customer’s private infrastructure.Hosted Chef is cloud-hosted, and includes configuration support and provisioning assistance.Its eponymously-named parent company (previously known as Opscode) also entices potential clients by offering a free trial version of either Enterprise flavor, but only for a maximum of 5 devices and without corporate support. Two versions of Chef exist: the free, open source tool and the enterprise offering, which is then subdivided into hosted and on-premises (private) versions. Developers and DevOps types will prefer using Chef, much more so than sysadmins. The tool is written in Ruby and Erlang, uses a pure-Ruby DSL in the Knife CLI, and includes a nice GUI for easy management. Chef is one of the most widely-used CM tools today, arguably playing second fiddle to the mighty Puppet.
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