[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Announcing Little Chef

[Miquel Torres < >]

>It's been on the roadmap for a while, and all it really needs is
>someone who wants to carry it over the finish line.  Basically,
>everything in Chef has a JSON representation - so you should be able
>to translate from a Python based recipe DSL to resources in Chef, and
>pass them back and forth - essentially passing the Run Context between
>the Python process and the Ruby one. It means you wouldn't have to
>duplicate the work that already exists in the resources and providers,
>and you would be able to write your own recipes, libraries, (and
>potentially resources and providers as well) in the language of your
>choice.
>
>You can see a demo of doing this from Perl:
>
>http://search.cpan.org/~holoway/Chef-0.01/lib/Chef.pm
>

That is very cool.
I have too many things on my plate right now, but it is good to know
that in principle it can be done... for when the time is right.

Miquel


2010/10/28 Adam Jacob 
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> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Miquel Torres 
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>  wrote:
>> Also, if many of you find it useful, we could set up a wiki page for
>> Chef newbies to get started the Little Chef way. I think some people
>> would find that easier.
>
> Feel free.
>
>> Another thing. I read some comments on the possibility of a Python
>> bridge for cookbooks. I can not even begin to express how cool that
>> would be. Little Chef being in the Python Package Index could already
>> bring Chef new exposure to the Python devops world. If you add to that
>> Python cookbooks, well, Chef would have the potential of becoming
>> *the* Configuration Management system, across language and culture
>> divides. I would certainly contribute lots of Python cookbook
>> "translations"!
>
> It's been on the roadmap for a while, and all it really needs is
> someone who wants to carry it over the finish line.  Basically,
> everything in Chef has a JSON representation - so you should be able
> to translate from a Python based recipe DSL to resources in Chef, and
> pass them back and forth - essentially passing the Run Context between
> the Python process and the Ruby one. It means you wouldn't have to
> duplicate the work that already exists in the resources and providers,
> and you would be able to write your own recipes, libraries, (and
> potentially resources and providers as well) in the language of your
> choice.
>
> You can see a demo of doing this from Perl:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~holoway/Chef-0.01/lib/Chef.pm
>
> Let me know if you want more insight.
>
> Adam
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