[chef] Re: Reusable steps: PoV request

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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith
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 wrote:
> Hello there!
>
>> My question:  Is there much interest in such a library of reusable
>> Chef steps
>
> Absolutely.  This would work very well with the stuff I am doing right
> now on cucuumber-chef, about which I'll be presenting on Thursday at
> the cukeup conference in London.  I'll post slides afterwards, and a
> blog summary later on http://agilesysadmin.net

Hi Stephen,
Very interesting talk - thank you.
FWIW I think the most intriguing element is launching into LXC, only
problem is that LXC is more restrictive than VirtualBox, etc, i.e on a
Ubuntu host I'm not launching a BSD guest.
But aside from those use cases I think LXC launches in Cucumber-Chef
will be a great step forward when it comes out.
You are right it speeds up by at least one order of magnitude the
launch time, and I think number that can be substantially multiplied
to get the effect on speeding Dev productivity :)
From the audience Q's you'll notice people dread having to rewrite all
their Vagrantfiles...
I wonder how difficult would it be to launch a LXC by parsing a Vagrantfile...
 Look forward to seeing your chef steps, hopefully we can eliminate
some duplication, and in the process make the result more robust.

Best wishes.


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