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by ketsa 2461 days ago
Wtf is chef...
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"Chef is a company and the name of a configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_(software)

All I could think of was this[1] and was wondering how a silly esoteric language can cause human rights issues.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Chef

It’s a tool for webdevs to do simple configuration of web servers without leaving their comfort zone of Ruby On Rails.
What people used in the past before Ansible was a thing.