[chef] Re: Command-and-control tools, part 2

[Jonathan Weiss < >]

> I came across
> http://www.opscode.com/blog/2009/06/26/adam-jacob-ezra-zygmuntowicz-demo-chef-nanite-at-velocity-2009/,
> and nanite looks promising, but I haven't seen much about it since then. The
> previous mailing list discussion that I linked mentioned RunDeck, and I see
> that Chef already integrates well with it, but I'm not sure if it has the
> callbacks/API to allow it to automate the provisioning and configuration
> tasks.
> Thank you in advance for any information; it is appreciated.

At Scalarium.com we use Nanite as the transport channel to control the
client's instances. We have many Nanite agents that respond to
different instance events and propagate it through the cluster.
You can then specify what Chef recipes should be run at what event.

Jonathan

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