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Political Statement Takes Down Chef

posted by martyb on Sunday September 22 2019, @05:44PM   
from the the-kitchen-is-closed dept.

mechanicjay writes:

A developer of some Ruby Gems pulled the code as a statement against certain entities (Department of Homeland Security — DHS) ultimately using the code. Chef gets owned in the process.

ZDNet has a good rundown of the incident:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/developer-takes-down-ruby-library-after-he-finds-out-ice-was-using-it/

It seems that developers at chef may have used an old copy of the dev's code to get things back up and running again, which seems like exactly the wrong approach.

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Original Submission

• Another reason to use Ansible Another reason to use Ansible (Score: 3, Interesting) by NickM on Sunday September 22 2019, @06:10PM (1 child)

  by NickM (2867) on Sunday September 22 2019, @06:10PM (#897192) Journal

  I dislike almost everything about Chef:
    It try to look like it's declarative when it is imperative, chef recipes are ruby scripts.
    It requires a server to be useful.
    It pull libs at runtime since according to the article the repo going down impacted some paying customers.

  Ansible is a better solution and used sensibly (without the overpriced web gui called ansible tower) it cost 0$

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  I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !

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• Re:Another reason to use Ansible (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @03:12AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @03:12AM (#897392)

  What do you think of Ansible compared to Puppet or any of the other open source alternatives?

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