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chef-run inventory support

I can’t put a dollar value on this feature, but it will ultimately determine if the product is relevant in the market or not,

Chef prides itself in creating software that’s a joy to use for it’s users,
and happy users turn into Customers, happy customers turn into a in-the-trenches salesforce, I want to tell my customers why Chef is amazing and usually I have to compare it to other apps (Ansible), without inventory support it makes it a hard discussion.

Puppet Bolt has a inventory file
https://puppet.com/docs/bolt/latest/inventory_file.html

Salt (salt-ssh) goes one step further … where you can give it a sshconfig or Ansible inventory file
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/roster/all/index.html

If you have a universal inventory it can be reused for InSpec, chef-run and maybe remote deploys for Habitat.

Chef Inc you are our only hope™

  • Karl Fischer
  • Feb 11 2020
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Chef Infrastructure Management
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  • Guest commented
    24 Dec, 2020 09:08pm

    Isn't Chef server database a ready inventory? We only need a way to specify a subset of servers, using a search query, for example.

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  • Grzegorz G commented
    20 May, 2020 03:39pm

    I think I don't get this feature of inventory. Isn't it what run_lists and roles provide, more or less? It would be a duplicate of features.

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