OpsWorks is a nice convenience on AWS and is implemented with the Chef configuration management tool (provided by Opscode, the company behind Chef, hence the name). Shameless plug: If you know you should be using a configuration management tool, but haven't picked one yet, I'll be releasing a book on Wednesday Sept 4th just for you. The book is called "Taste Test" and compares Puppet, Chef, Salt, and Ansible. In the…
sounds interesting. I was reading some great things about ansible and am keen to give it a try. However, reading about AWS Opswork makes me wonder if it's better to stick to chef, even if it's not as easy. If Opsworks picks up, chef's likely to become the gold standard. I'm curious to know your take on this?
Ansible in particular makes it easy to be up and going in a matter of minutes where some of the other tools literally take days. So, if you're on the fence, I'd try Ansible first, then if for some reason it's not working for you, then consider Chef.