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Cook with Chef without a Chef Server
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Don't "call home" installation method #189

Open tobami opened 10 years ago

tobami commented 10 years ago

The new omnibus installation method means every new node you deploy will call Opscode (ehh, Chef), with lots of info about your hardware and OS.

For organizations where the platform is standardized, an easy solution would be to add a configuration option where you can specify a URL (which can be on your own servers, S3 or similar), which is used instead

agh commented 10 years ago

Was looking through install.sh and struggling to see what's sent back to Chef. Any pointers?

tobami commented 10 years ago

Well, "call home" doesn't really mean the script is sending all kinds of information to Chef. But just by making a call to getchef.com you are already telling them how many servers you deploy and which OS and arch you are using, among other things :smile:

In any case, for an organization that has homogeneous hardware it usually makes more sense to just download the appropriate omnibus package and mirror it on S3 or wherever you want.