[chef] Re: Re: Thinking out loud

[Graeme Mathieson <mathie@woss.name>]

Hi,

Thanks for the detailed response, Adam, and apologies for the delay in  
following up. I've just got so many thoughts, ideas and directions  
that it's hard to know where to start! Well, that and I've got a  
production system to deliver ASAP, which is what I'm busting a gut on  
just now. :-)

I'll tackle this one for now:

On 25 Jul 2009, at 20:24, Adam Jacob wrote:

> > * A thin bootstrap tarball of chef solo that doesn't rely on  
> > anything other
> > than ruby being installed on the client system. No rubygems, nowt.  
> > That way,
> > we can handle everything else through chef and have real bare-bones  
> > system
> > images.
>
> This would really just be enough chef to get chef - which is pretty
> much the situation now.

But unfortunately, "just enough chef" is quite a lot.  So I had a go  
at creating a "bootstrap" installation script for Chef. It works  
against a pristine Ubuntu 9.04 system and doesn't pollute the system  
itself with anything, leaving that to Chef itself.  I've shifted the  
documentation (and the script itself) across to our public wiki:

    http://wiki.rubaidh.com/display/public/Bootstrapping+Chef

I'm sure it's utterly bug ridden and flawed, but it does appear to do  
the right thing. And, for bonus points, it seems to be somewhat  
idempotent in that it doesn't cause harm if you run it again. Not that  
it carries on where it left off, but at least everything happens in a  
temporary directory, or through Chef.

Thoughts?

G
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