Great question Tara! I've been wanting to investigate Chef for quite a
while, but haven't found the time.
I'm not sure if you were at the Genesys (sp?) presentation at the last
EG conference, but it's a Pines project with the same goal: to automate
the deployment an EG cluster. I wonder if the Pines folks considered
using Chef... Maybe they could compare/contrast the two tools.
Justin
On Mon Oct 22 16:16:36 2012, Tara Robertson wrote:
I'm super energized and excited about a whole bunch of things after
attending the Access 2012 conference in Montreal. There was an awesome
session from Graham Stewart, Network and Storage Services Manager,
from the University of Toronto called Cooking with Chef at the U of T
Libraries: Automated Deployment of Web Applications in a Library Context.
He demoed Chef and ran a bunch of cookbooks to set up an instance of
Islandora while he was doing his talk. Here's the notes from his talk:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1X-j0tEsm8jhGEGl7mp9BIu0XZZid0x4FX8gVWm9kC5w
His talk got me wondering if it was possible to use Chef to install
and maintain instances of Evergreen. If someone were to write the
relevant cookbooks, then could they be reused by other people? I
suspect there's some things that would need tweaking (but with limited
knowledge I'm not sure what they would be).
I chatted with Graham during the break. He was excited about the idea
of doing this with Evergreen and said that he'd be happy to answer any
questions:
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Chris Cormack shared this link Deploying Koha from git with Chef :
http://halcyoncorsair.tumblr.com/post/31841813338/deploying-koha-from-git-with-chef
Would there be benefits to using Chef? How much of a pain would it be
to write the requisite cookbooks? Would new cookbooks need to be
written for each version of Evergreen? For each version of XULrunner,
Postgres and...?
Cheers,
Tara
