Tag: Chef

Managing Standalone Cookbooks in Chef

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Lewis Goettner

Managing cookbooks in Chef is a topic of heavy discussion right now in the community. The biggest argument seems to be between forking and maintaining an entire cookbooks repository (like the main Opsode one), or managing your custom cookbooks as … Continue reading →

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Keeping your machine clean with Vagrant & Chef

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Lewis Goettner

After being introduced to Vagrant, it occurred to me that I can stop installing all sorts of server technologies on my local box! As a test, I configured a standalone ColdFusion server.

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Chef: Rounding the Bend

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Lewis Goettner

Since you’ve already ready my intro to Chef, and well as my article on getting started (right?) we’re going to do away with the long recap and instead give you a “Preiviously on 24″ style list: You know what Chef … Continue reading →

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Chef: Out of the Gate

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Lewis Goettner

Next in my series of posts about the configuration management tool chef, I’d like to talk a little bit about how I got started. First up: The Server Although there are several varieties of chef, I prefer to have a … Continue reading →

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Rapid Configuration with Chef

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Lewis Goettner

Here’s the scenario: it’s 3:30 on Friday, and I’d like to spin up a new application server to sit in a linux cluster. Here’s what I have: A provisioned, but completely empty VM Here’s what I need: A full install … Continue reading →

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