Hacker News Reader

Chef and Puppet are binary-only?

Chef's omnibus installation is a full ruby interpreter along with associated support libraries like openssl and everything more or less above glibc necessary to run the client. It may not be binary only but there's ~100MB of so of binaries in it.

Pretty sure Puppet has something similar with pre-built binaries.

I believe most orgs switched to Ansible already, not because of binary blobs or their size, but because of the necessity of installing anything more than an SSH server.

Yeah, I worked for 12 years on the chef-client so I'm well aware of that.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com