[chef] Re: Re: Announcing Spiceweasel

[Matt Ray < >]

Rake would probably work for some cases, but wanted a simple way to
pass around descriptions of infrastructure so you use the YAML file in
a repo with hundreds of cookbooks and roles, but load only use the
exact ones you use. It also adds the nodes in order, so you could
ensure each dependency is already in place as you create your nodes
(eg. webservers before load balancers). 0.2 is almost ready, adding
deletion and rebuilding support. Eventually I will probably make the
API calls directly when you use the "--execute" flag.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Technical Evangelist | Opscode, Inc
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On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Michael Hale 
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 wrote:
> Instead of using yaml why not just call knife from a rake script? You
> could use filelists to describe the things to upload or even use knife
> at the library level to speed things up.
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Matt Ray 
> <
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>  wrote:
>> 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
>>
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