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> With Chef you have to maintain additional services like CouchDB and RabbitMQ.

And care about a lot of dependencies. Installing chef-server on a fresh ubuntu quantal:

    0 upgraded, 444 newly installed, 0 to remove and 58 not upgraded.
    Need to get 280 MB of archives.
    After this operation, 775 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Of course a lot of that is due to how ubuntu packages java, but still... that's quite a lot of software to care about.

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With Chef 11 Server, the CouchDB component is removed for PostgreSQL. RabbitMQ is still there. Opscode provides a single package with everything above libc required to run the server.

http://www.opscode.com/chef/install - "Chef Server" tab.

If you'd like to build your own:

https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-chef https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-software https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby

Cheers, Joshua Timberman, Technical Program Manager, Opscode, Inc.

A large part of that was an unfortunate side-affect of gecode (a library Chef used for dependency resolution in Chef 10) not having a -nox package, thus pulling in libqt4-dev, which then spirals out of control. The chef-server cookbook used the gecode cookbook which automated installing from source without qt to avoid this if one desired.

The Chef 11 Server doesn't use gecode.

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