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

[Hedge Hog < >]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Patrick Debois 
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> On 31/03/11 05:47, Hedge Hog wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith
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>>   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 :)

Just a point of clarification... I'm not sure that is Stephen's idea,
and in case any one thinks this I'm pretty sure he'd not claim it was
-  people have been chasing this for ages, e.g all the Globus work,
and even those efforts arose out of earlier efforts to to harness and
manage disparate machines.

Best wishes.
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