topic Re: Forwarder management: deployment server vs Chef in Getting Data In

Forwarder management: deployment server vs Chef

responsys_cm — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:59:31 GMT

I have very little experience with chef. I have a client with very high security requirements. I was wondering if anyone in the community can explain the costs and benefits of using the deployment server vs chef. I'm assuming the customer would want to use client certs with the deployment server.

Thanks.

Re: Forwarder management: deployment server vs Chef

richgalloway — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 21:13:09 GMT

If the client is already using Chef then they should continue to do so. Chef can do much more than a deployment server can. Even if they use a DS, they'll still need Chef to update the forwarder executable itself (something a DS can't do).