chef

Hello all,

I hope everyone is looking forward to a nice sizzling July 4th!

In anticipation of the upcoming DCLA2013 next weekend, I wanted to announce that there are only 3 seats left for our Drupal/Vagrant/Chef free training, You'll Never Take My VMs Alive.

I'm curious which tool is generally preferred for infrastructure management: Puppet or Chef?

Here's a rough unofficial analysis of high level points.

Puppet

• Older product
• Stronger community than Chef
• Significant number of community modules https://github.com/search?q=puppet (1947) at current count http://forge.puppetlabs.com/
• Written in Ruby but requires a Ruby DSL to really use the language.

Chef

• Newer product
• Less community support and activity.