Hi Tara, I started some cookbooks a long time ago for use with Vagrant (vagrantup.com) but haven't updated it in quite a while, and basically since then Vagrant gained support for Puppet so I was pondering rewriting for Puppet. Either way it's definitely possible to have Chef provision an Evergreen server, just something that would need to be explored more.
https://github.com/jamesrf/evergreen-chef ~James Fournie On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Justin Hopkins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
