Automation and integration
One of the best parts about Chef is that your infrastructure and software model is consistent with what is deployed. What this means for you is that when chef-client runs on an endhost, that host's state is updated to match your modeled environment. For example, consider a scenario where you have 10 EC2 database hosts, and all of them have a special role, database_server, applied to them. This role's attributes indicate that PostgreSQL 9.1 is to be installed and its data should be stored in /opt/postgresql/data. By executing chef-client on all ten nodes, they will have PostgreSQL 9.1 installed and storing data in /opt/postgresql/data. Now consider that all of our nodes need to have a new EBS storage device attached to ...
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