[chef] Re: Re: Chef Server

[Miquel Torres < >]

Hi Tim,

there databag functionality for Chef Solo since Chef 0.10.4
As to databag search, we developed that at edelight as a separate
cookbook library:
https://github.com/edelight/chef-solo-search

You just need to add the chef-solo-search library to your cookbooks
repository, and the functionality will be available to Chef Solo.
We should eventually integrate the library with Chef Solo proper anyway.

Miquel


2012/1/4 Adam Jacob 
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> To be clear, the Web UI won't be re-built in Erlang (that would.. um.. 
> hurt) but likely will move to Rails.
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> Adam
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> On Jan 3, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Joshua Timberman wrote:
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>> Hello!
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Tim Uckun 
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>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> There are so many moving parts in chef that it's kind of mind
>>> boggling.  Runit, solr, rabbitmq, merb (merb!!??), couchdb, chef,
>>> ohai, knife, and other addons like knife-solo (which needs python),
>>> librarian etc.  I am sure there is a good reason for all this but it's
>>> a bit intimidating to have to manage and learn all of these things.
>>
>> Just to clarify a couple things about the choices in this stack:
>>
>> 1. Runit is not required, it is only used by default on Debian/Ubuntu
>> because it is more robust for service management than plain ol' init
>> scripts. After learning more about it, I find it far more simple than
>> any other service/daemon management tool.
>>
>> http://smarden.org/runit
>>
>> 2. Merb was used because the Chef Server API and WebUI were written
>> well before Rails 3 or Sinatra were available. However, on Opscode
>> Hosted Chef, we're moving API endpoints over to Erlang based services,
>> and this will come to the Open Source Chef Server at some point
>> (mentioned in our community summit in November, but  release date is
>> not set - we're still moving internal services first[0]).
>>
>> 3. There is definitely a learning curve when considering additional
>> tools and plugins from the community. Chef is intended to provide you
>> with primitives you can use to build the configuration management and
>> system integration system that fits your needs best, and comes with a
>> number of tools and plugins that you can use right away.
>>
>>> The bootstrap commands seem to ignore the fact you may have rubygems
>>> already installed and want to download one anyway. I wasn't expecting
>>> that and ended up writing my own bootstrap script.
>>
>> Indeed. If you're doing Ruby/RubyGems installation in your base OS
>> installation or image, you'll probably need to account for that by a
>> custom bootstrap template.
>>
>>> Knife, chef-client, chef-solo all need different config files and some
>>> items are repeated. I would prefer just one config file with all the
>>> options in it.
>>
>> You can specify the configuration file to use with any of the commands
>> with the -c option.
>>
>> knife -c /etc/chef/client.rb
>>
>> For example. You should read the configuration settings page for more
>> information about how the various configuration options matter by
>> context of the tool they're used in.
>>
>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Configuration+Settings
>>
>>> It would be nice if I could define my nodes in ruby like I define all
>>> my recipes and roles. Same goes for databags.  I also prefer yaml to
>>> json but that's just me.
>>
>> I believe you *can*, actually, use Ruby rather than JSON for node
>> documents in the Chef Repository.
>>
>> The class used is Chef::Knife::Core::ObjectLoader
>>
>> https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/knife/core/object_loader.rb
>>
>>> The wiki is pretty nice, thanks to whoever is maintaining that.
>>
>> Our support engineering team is responsible for the updates and
>> content. We have some plans for further awesomeness coming soon.
>>
>>
>> [0]: 
>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Opscode+Chef+Short-Term+Roadmap+and+Performance+Improvements
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