[chef] Re: Re: network encryption between hosts

[Adam Greene < >]

Thanks brad for the tip!

Just to update this thread in case people are looking at the same sort of issue, we ended up using this cookbook from the heavywater folks: 

http://github.com/heavywater/chef-ipsec

as noted, it is still under development, but so far it has worked well for us!

adam

On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:

On Nov 23, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Adam Greene wrote:

Anyway, just throwing out a general question to see what people's experiences have been and if chef changes how they approach an issue such as this.

We've been looking at Virtual Private LAN configurations that would support Rackspace, and the pickings have been very slim. The only solution I've found so far is vCider, but it requires more recent versions of Linux than we are currently using -- they support multiple distributions, but for example with CentOS they only support CentOS 6+ and for the moment we're stuck on CentOS 5.6. Otherwise, it looks like a really cool drop-in kind of solution.

They also support multiple cloud providers, as well as extending your local physical LAN through a gateway to one or more cloud providers.

Of course, it is commercial as opposed to being freely available. We have yet to find anything that could potentially work for us that is also freely available.

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