Can someone provide the info around Chef licence

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Hello,
Can someone provide the info around Chef licence.

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Here is the pricing and also the features available for the price/system.

Now in saying that, the free chef server system (with no paid support - only community based) has a limit of 25 nodes.

I use the free version which has Chef server, Manage and reporting. To ensure we don’t use to many licenses I remove most nodes after running the cookbooks to install all the required software as I only need to have them configured once. There is a little extra overhead involved in this:

  • Cleaning up SSH keys
  • Ensuring the server no longer sees the node
  • Ensuring the server no longer sees the client

It isn’t a perfect way to use the system, but it does work.

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To clear up message above, the chef server itself is not under commercial license in any way.
Only manage and report add-on are subject to licensing above 25 nodes.

If you don’t use the graphical interface and work with chef-dk you can register has many nodes as you wish on your chef server (as long as the underlying hardware can support the load)

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Thanks a lot for your response.

is Chef HA functionality also paid service?

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Yes.

Reference documentation is here: https://docs.chef.io/install_server_ha.html.

In doubt you can contact Chef to get commercial informations, it will be more accurate than me.