[hunvreus]

It's not a matter of taking the gamble you'll stay small. It's that there are different kind of big, only 1 times out of 1 billion there is a single player (Google, Facebook, Amazon) who reach an insane scale. By then, you'll have the resources to solve whatever issue you may hit.

As Michael (creator of the project) said here; it scales just fine even with serious players (thousands of instances). He has actual hard data and concrete use cases to back it up.

So far, all I've heard from detractors is the "OMG Chef is so hardcore Facebook uses it". Well, they use some. They'd probably do just fine with Ansible instead, provided they were putting half the brain power they put into Chef to make it work for their infrastructure.

You may get very big, just likely not Facebook big.