[chef] Re: Re: Reusable steps: PoV request

[Patrick Debois < >]

On 31/03/11 05:47, Hedge Hog wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith
> <
>  >
>   wrote:
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> > 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.
I've been toying porting the vagrant concept to the cloud with my new 
laboratory project https://github.com/jedi4ever/mccloud .
I'm leveraring the fog library to control different cloud vendors 
instances up and down.
Fog now has experimental support for virtualbox, so instead of being 
limited to cloud or virtualbox, we could do both.

Now if we would write an lxc fog provider, that would fit in nicely with 
Stephen's idea I think.
One tool, many providers for cloud (public/private/personal :)