[chef] Announcing Spiceweasel

[Matt Ray < >]

Yesterday I released a new CLI tool for generating knife commands from
simple YAML describing your Chef-managed infrastructure. It's on
GitHub (http://bit.ly/spcwsl) and RubyGems (gem install spiceweasel)
if you're interested. The YAML syntax is very simple, but this isn't
intended to be anything more than a simple-batchloader. Eventually it
will support deleting and rebuilding the YAML-described infrastructure
as well as re-running chef-client on each listed node.

The YAML file:

cookbooks:
  - apache2
  - apt
  - mysql
roles:
  - base
  - monitoring
  - webserver
data bags:
  users:
    - alice
    - bob
    - chuck
  data:
nodes:
  serverA:
    - role[loadbalancer]
    - -i ~/.ssh/mray.pem -x user --sudo -d ubuntu10.04-gems
  ec2 5:
    - role[webserver]
    - -S mray -I ~/.ssh/mray.pem -x ubuntu -G default -i ami-a403f7cd
-f m1.small
  rackspace 3:
    - recipe[mysql] role[clustered_mysql]
    - --image 49 --flavor 2

turns into

knife cookbook upload apache2
knife cookbook upload apt
knife cookbook upload mysql
knife role from file base.rb
knife role from file monitoring.rb
knife role from file webserver.rb
knife data bag create data
knife data bag create users
knife data bag from file users data_bags/alice.json
knife data bag from file users data_bags/bob.json
knife data bag from file users data_bags/chuck.json
knife bootstrap serverA 'role[loadbalancer]' -i ~/.ssh/mray.pem -x
user --sudo -d ubuntu10.04-gems
knife ec2 server create 'role[webserver]' -S mray -I ~/.ssh/mray.pem
-x ubuntu -G default -i ami-a403f7cd -f m1.small
knife ec2 server create 'role[webserver]' -S mray -I ~/.ssh/mray.pem
-x ubuntu -G default -i ami-a403f7cd -f m1.small
knife ec2 server create 'role[webserver]' -S mray -I ~/.ssh/mray.pem
-x ubuntu -G default -i ami-a403f7cd -f m1.small
knife ec2 server create 'role[webserver]' -S mray -I ~/.ssh/mray.pem
-x ubuntu -G default -i ami-a403f7cd -f m1.small
knife ec2 server create 'role[webserver]' -S mray -I ~/.ssh/mray.pem
-x ubuntu -G default -i ami-a403f7cd -f m1.small
knife rackspace server create 'recipe[mysql]' 'role[clustered_mysql]'
--image 49 --flavor 2
knife rackspace server create 'recipe[mysql]' 'role[clustered_mysql]'
--image 49 --flavor 2
knife rackspace server create 'recipe[mysql]' 'role[clustered_mysql]'
--image 49 --flavor 2

Feedback is appreciated!

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Technical Evangelist | Opscode, Inc
E: 

 
 T: (512) 731-2218
Twitter, Github: mattray