[chef] Re: Bootstrapping a Chef Node using a Java

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Daniel Cukier wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm developing a web service in Java on a system that needs to provision, 
> create, remove nodes.
> 
> I have this restriction that the web service must be developed in Java. 
> This web service must:
> 
>  1 - create nodes on different Cloud environments (EC2, rackspace, 
> openstack, etc) 
>  2 - Bootstrap these nodes with chef and one or 2 roles
> 
> How do you suggest creating this web service? I thought about doing system 
> calls to knife, but I don't think this is a good idea. Is there any Java 
> specific library that is similar to knife, a library that I can provision 
> cloud nodes (like knife ec2) and bootstrap chef (life knife bootstrap)?

As far as I know there is no Chef client binding in Java, but you can look at 
PyChef as an example of how to make one. Some naive Google pointed me at 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3630615/java-cloud-apis as a seemingly ;
decent list of cloud interaction libraries in Java, but I make no claims of 
knowledge in that field. Even as a primarily Python guy I would still say Fog 
is basically unbeatable for this kind of task, so I would highly recommend 
you see if Fog under JRuby is an option. PyChef will probably not work under 
Jython as-is due to its use ctypes, but that could also be investigated.

--NOah

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