Im about to start a new project and figured I should start using Bedrock. I figure it would make sense to use the same provisioning provider/system as bedrock when Vagrant is added to the repo. So my question is will bedrock use Puppet, Chef, Salt or something else?
Chef: This is the one I know best and the one I’ve actually done most of the work with. See https://github.com/roots/wp-cookbook for details. Chef is great because of its popularity and community. There’s probably a cookbook for almost anything you need at this point. Downsides are it can get complicated, it’s built in Ruby and not that beginner friendly.
Puppet: Similar to Chef in popularity (maybe even more so?) and that it’s built in Ruby. I personally have never used it but I know it’s even more popular than Chef in the PHP/WP community which is a plus. I think Puppet is more beginner friendly than Chef since you can use config files like YAML instead of a pure Ruby DSL.
Salt: Pros are that it may be even simpler than Chef/Puppet. However I think it loses out just because its lack of popularity and community behind it.
Ansible: In my opinion, the simplest and easiest one to get started with. Lately it’s gotten a lot more popular which helps and better documentation.