Re: Deploying Rails Infrastructures with Chef

[Michael Hale <mikehale@gmail.com>]

Very cool stuff Josh very cool!

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Joshua Timberman <joshua@opscode.com> wrote:
> (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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> Opscode, Inc
> Joshua Timberman, Senior System Engineer
> C: 720.878.4322 E: joshua@opscode.com
>
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