[chef] Re: Re: anyone working on a jboss cookbook?

["Burkholder, Peter" < >]

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On Oct 17, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Sascha Bates wrote:

> Hi Bryan, I have been implementing ATG on JBoss for  client for a few 
> months now and have been taking notes for a cookbook.  I 've started 
> working on it, although I haven't figured out what level of detail I'm 
> going to use on some of the complex settings, like slimming and port 
> management.  My client is not using config management and so I was using 
> this as an excercise to keep in practice with Chef.  Ironically, I've just 
> signed an actual client with another client to evaluate and then implement 
> something similar for them on Puppet, which is kinda cool.  I would welcome 
> collaboration.  My github page is here: https://github.com/sbates
> 
> I am not sure why no one has published a cookbook because I know at least 
> one person has emailed me privately when I've had questions and they have 
> internal jboss cookbooks.  I think that possibly the complexity is not 
> entirely apparent when you first start thinking about it and that it might 
> be difficult to scrub client data from an implementation or that it might 
> be hard to "do it right" enough to want to share or that employers may not 
> allow it.  Those are my theories on why there is no cookbook for JBoss.

Hmm.  We're just getting started with Chef and I just sort of assumed there 
would be a JBoss cookbook out there.  Is it because the platform 
implementations vary too widely for someone to make the effort for a 
platform-agnostic cookbook?

- -Peter

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