Getting it working with Chef was about 10 days of full-time work, including setting up a Chef server, bootstrapping the cluster, and writing recipes. Then maybe another 2-3 days for extending it in various ways beyond basic functionality.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> wrote: > I think my assessment would be that everyone has their pre chosen toolset > and goes with it. You can make any of them work (with enough effort). > > Personally, we are using chef. They are building service orchestration, > which few toolsets support. > On Aug 17, 2011 1:42 PM, "Alex Holmes" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On thread "operational overhead for HBase", J-D gave out some > > interesting insights into automated deployments: > > > > " - Have tools to automate cluster maintenance, such as doing > > rolling upgrades. We use Puppet and Fabric[2]." > > > > I'm currently evaluating the use of Puppet for Hadoop/HBase automated > > deploys and Fabric looks a lot simpler and more descriptive. I'm > > curious how well Fabric would work in its own right without Puppet for > > automate installs? > > > > Apologies if this isn't 100% related to HBase. > > > > Cheers, > > Alex > -- Tim
