Thanks James and Justin for replying. I don't get the differences between Puppet, Vagrant and Chef, but I'm OK with that (for now).
Cheers, Tara On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM, James Fournie <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
