[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Thinking out loud

[Ian Ragsdale <ian.ragsdale@gmail.com>]

I actually did something similar myself, but totally in ruby.  It  
creates a Net::SSH connection over which it can run commands, runs the  
commands remotely, and evaluates the results locally.

It figures out if apt-get or yum are installed, installs the necessary  
packages to run chef-solo, then copies over the chef-solo config (the  
really cool thing is that Net::SCP can happen over the same SSH  
connection) and runs the specified recipe.

- Ian

On Jul 29, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Adam Jacob wrote:
> I dig it!  It's already pretty generic, but seeing something like this
> for all the various platforms we support is a great idea.  Reminds me
> of the old Gnome installer from back in the day.  Another variant on
> this would be using Capistrano to do it remotely..
>
> Adam
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