[chef] Re: Can someone validate my understanding of chef?

[Jon Wood < >]

On 6 October 2010 08:55,  
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 wrote:
> I am looking for the best way to structure the following.
>
> We have several legacy java websites running apache, tomcat & mysql.
>
> Currently I am thinking about each site would have it's own cookbook and 
> branch
> in the node, such as
> the one below:
>
...snip...
>
> Does this sounds like the chef way to go?

That would generally be the way to go, although you might like to look
at using data bags for that instead, and including an attribute called
something like "deploy_to" which lists the servers that application
should be deployed onto.

I'm using a similar thing for hosting PHP and Rails sites in a
client's cluster, and by using data bags it gives the flexibility to
quickly move a site to it's own server by changing a single attribute.
-- 
Jon Wood
Blank Pad Development

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