[_Soulou]

I read that for some of you the Chef experience was painful. I'm using chef-solo with the chef-solo-search cookbook and everything is working pretty fluently. Each of my node owns the entire repository and apply chef-solo on itself. With a cron to periodically update the chef repository, it is really confortable.

I agree that using chef-server is a bit painful (that's why I don't), but otherwise there are a lot of cookbooks and it works well. What kind of bad experience did you get?

[unkoman]

The documentation is sub-par and rarely updated. Otherwise, it's nice, especially in AWS.

[hackerboos]

I only have a handful of servers and gave chef-solo a try.

I found bootstrapping chef was a pain compared to running Ansible.