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[swalberg]

Ref: https://twitter.com/AmeliasBrain/status/943928962995994624

Do you use this gem? What has it helped you to do? Your story might give other people ideas about what they can do in their environments.

(Please post feature/support/bug requests in a new issue)

[swalberg]

I'll start - I first found this gem shortly after starting with using Chef. I was able to automate a few hundred VMs for a high profile internal project, and because of the approach, meant there were no snowflakes or hand rolled servers.

I fixed several bugs and eventually got commit rights. Our teams use it to make new VMs and also search for VMs, change memory/CPU settings, take snapshots, and I'm sure there's more. The integration between Chef and vSphere has been nothing short of transformational for us.

[Zorrom]

As from a DevOps background, I personally loved Chef a lot because of its simplicity and the way it got things done. We have used Chef to automate many of the configuration related activities and most importantly we solved Infra complexities.
In terms of this vSphere, this is the very first plugin I used for VM provisioning and it was magic to see how the VM's are getting built with post provisioning tasks such as software installation,hardening and some times patching. Also used with other cloud providers such amazon ec2 and it was the same story.
Ever since after that I have used Chef and its plugins for more customers and managed hundreds of nodes and most importantly we are surprised to see the automation numbers going up.
So overall this has been useful to learn a lot about Infra and most importantly it is still continuing to benefit us in a lot more way. keep making Chef and its gems great 👍 💯