[chef] Re: kitchen, hideabed

[Adam Jacob <adam@opscode.com>]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Matthew Todd<matthew.todd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all --
>
> On a yak-shaving whim, I've gone and bundled up chef-server-slice such that
> it can be run on Heroku:
>
>  http://github.com/matthewtodd/kitchen

That is totally awesome, Matthew!

> If happen to give it a try, I'd love your ideas / feedback / patches.
>
> Interested readers will note that:
>
> 1. Chef::Queue is stubbed out for now. So recipes that need search won't
> work.

Makes sense.

> 2. There are some monkey-patches in the project I'm hoping to integrate back
> into Chef proper, most notably support for HTTP basic authentication in
> Chef::REST.

Would love it - have you opened feature tickets yet?

> 3. I've written my own OpenID::Store::CouchDB, as I had a little difficulty
> with the one on github. (Though, if I understand
> http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef-dev/2009-06/msg00001.html, it's got
> a short lifetime of usefulness anyway.)

Cool - are you planning on releasing it?

> On a related note, since CouchDB isn't available on Heroku, I've written up
> a small Rails app that looks just enough like CouchDB to get Chef to work:
>
>  http://github.com/matthewtodd/hideabed
>
> Granted, this flies in the face of everything CouchDB stands for, but it's
> also a simple way to get a toy server up and running for my 3 Chef clients.
> :-)

This is actually my preferred way that people get "something else" as
the Data store for Chef - so I'm pretty stoked you built it this way.
:)

Very cool work - let us know if there is anything we can do to be of 
assistance!

Adam

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