On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:21 AM, zw <[email protected]> wrote:

> Could experts here share how infrastructure chef is usually used with jenkins 
> ?
> Is chef, which we believe are meant for configurations and deployments to 
> different environments, integrated with Jenkins using the execute shell step ?

It depends on what you need to automate.  You could use Jenkins to 
automatically kick off chef deployments in various environments, depending on 
whether certain criteria have been fulfilled -- for example, perhaps you have 
an updated code base that passes all the unit tests, integration tests, and 
regression tests, and so now you need to push it out to your Staging 
environment so that you can do load testing.

You could also use Chef to automate deployment of Jenkins servers, or perhaps 
just the slaves.

They are both very flexible tools, and they can interface in a variety of ways.

> We new to chef.

Note that Opscode also has a mailing list for their user base, see 
<http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/info/chef>.

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