One of the nice features of opscode chef is it’s integration with cloud providers like amazon EC2. Knife, opscode chef’s command line client tool, makes it possible to create and bootstrap a VM in just one line – if you go through a few setup steps. In this article, I want to show you how [...]
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The guys from peritor, who are the creators of webistrano, created an opscode chef based cloud management solution: Scalarium. Jonathan Weiss walked me through their solution, which helps to solve the issue of installing and dynamically configuring applications on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. In this post, I want to show you how they [...]
In “The Moving Parts of Opscode Chef” there was an interesting discussion about the need of a highly available chef server if you want to use opscode chef as your configuration management tool of choice. Especially for small to medium sized enviroments running your own chef server is overkill. If you don’t want to use [...]
The Moving Parts Managing your infrastructure with Opscode Chef involves a few moving parts you need to be aware of. As I found it quite hard to differentiate, I want to share the basics with you:
