Chef
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale (by chef)
Mina
Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool (by mina-deploy)
| Chef | Mina | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | |
| 7,747 | 4,362 | |
| 0.7% | 0.0% | |
| 9.6 | 2.3 | |
| 5 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Chef
Posts with mentions or reviews of Chef.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-16.
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I_suck_and_my_tests_are_order_dependent
my contribution: public_method_that_only_deep_merge_should_use
https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/68dd5f42273f19bc5975c0dc8e...
that was 9 years ago and it was code smell that things were broken apart incorrectly and at some point i rewrote it so that wasn't necessary -- but sometimes you just gotta move the ball down the field, even if you don't get a first down.
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Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?
I've found the Chef project (https://github.com/chef/chef) to be high quality and easily readable but I've been working with Chef for like 8 years at this point which might be influencing how I view it.
Hashicorp projects also seem very well done too especially given how extensible they are.
Mina
Posts with mentions or reviews of Mina.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-29.
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Setting up Ruby on Rails with RVM, Puma, Mina, Nginx, Sidekiq and Redis on Amazon Linux 2
After that is ready just run the mina setup command and it will create mina’s folder structure for your project using the parameters you setup before. Read more info on mina setup on their Getting started guide.
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Multiple deployments and High Availability with Mina and Ruby on Rails
However this model is generic to any client-server / monolithic / micro services approach and to any languages and frameworks. In my project I use Mina (Formerly using Capistrano), so that means that on each deployment the script makes a SSH-in to the remote machine and performs the deployment process: Git clone, Git pull, rake db:migrate assets:precompile, puma:restart, etc… Before using Capistrano I was doing all this manually #sigh.
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Why it needs to be so painful to deploy a Rails app on Ubuntu in 2022?
Same with my experience. I could never get Capistrano to work. I blame the never updated documentation that also missing important details here and there so often. Reading the doc is like walking in the woods. In the end I switched to Mina, and finally everything works.
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Mina: Lightweight, Constant-Sized Blockchain
Not to be confused with Mina: blazing fast application deployment tool (https://github.com/mina-deploy/mina)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Chef and Mina you can also consider the following projects:
Puppet - Server automation framework and application
Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.
BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Ruby-LXC - ruby bindings for liblxc
munki - Managed software installation for macOS —