Re: chef + vlad/capistrano?

[AJ Christensen <aj@junglist.gen.nz>]

Josh from 37signals put together the beginnings of a thor script, too:

http://gist.github.com/60789

Regards,

AJ

On 3/03/2009, at 5:31 AM, Adam Jacob wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:40 AM, David Balatero <dbalatero@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> > Hey, I'm starting to think about the server infrastructure for a new
> > Rails-based site I'll be deploying on EC2 in the next half-year or  
> > so. I was
> > wondering how, in your experience, Chef has played with something  
> > like
> > Vlad/Capistrano for deploying new versions of a website? Have you  
> > kept the
> > two separate? Is there a way for Chef to assist in deployment that  
> > has
> > worked well? Maybe you could update the wiki with some insights  
> > into that,
> > as it's not quite clear how the two might inter-operate at the  
> > moment.
>
> David, I cc-ed the Chef mailing list as well.
>
> We haven't done any direct Vlad/Capistrano integration yet. In the
> short term it should be easy to plug in the search capabilities of
> Chef, so that you can dynamically configure the hosts and roles for
> your deployment recipe.  (ie: "Which system is the database, which are
> my web frontends")
>
> Long term, I believe we will get to a place where tools like Vlad and
> Cap are orchestrating Chef Resources in real time, rather than
> directly modifying the system.
>
> We'd be glad to work with you on getting a first pass at the search
> level integration done for Vlad or Cap.  Drop a note on the list, or
> stop by #chef on irc.freenode.net.
>
> Regards,
> Adam
>
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