Deploying Rails Infrastructures with Chef

[Joshua Timberman <joshua@opscode.com>]

(From Opscode blog post, http://bit.ly/chefonec2)

We are pleased to announce the initial release of a new Chef  
repository and Amazon EC2 AMIs that can be used to bootstrap a Chef  
server and clients in the Cloud!

In our experience as systems automation consultants, we built a  
library of best practices for designing and deploying web application  
infrastructures. The Opscode Cookbooks for Chef represent a  
significant amount of our efforts in this area. This new repository  
will provide a cohesive structure where the individual cookbooks get  
put to good use deploying a Rails application with a database backend.  
The client nodes are centrally managed with a Chef server that also  
provides OpenLDAP authentication, centralized logging with Rsyslog,  
and will soon include monitoring and trending.

This initial release is based on the current Chef release, 0.6.2. As  
such, it won't have the roles and cookbook metadata features that are  
coming soon, but future releases of the AMIs and the repository will  
support select new features as Chef evolves. We haven't integrated  
monitoring and trending features yet, but that is planned for a future  
release. We plan to release other virtual images, such as libvirt/KVM  
and VMware. We will also expand the documentation to describe other  
features, uses, and implementation examples. The github repository  
itself will be updated with new developments.

Ready to get started? Head on over to the Chef wiki page which will  
walk you through the basic steps to get up and running.

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Getting+Started+with+EC2+Rails+Infrastructure

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Joshua Timberman, Senior System Engineer
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