[chef] Re: Re: Advice sought on Chef-ifying heterogeneous mess of Unices

[Christopher DeMarco < >]

On Sep 20, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Phil Dibowitz 
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> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 09:52:33PM -0400, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
>> 1.  Where to start?  I began learning by putting my .emacs and .bashrc
>> everywhere.  While that was cute, it quickly became more trouble than it 
>> was
>> worth, because I didn't automate anything of high risk, value or volume.
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> You start by picking one system, and pulling one config at a time until
> everything you are about on that system is controlled by Chef. Then you add
> more systems.

"Bite the bullet" he sez.  Humph.  I was hoping to avoid hard work XD

Seriously though, I was just mulling over a different project and wondered if 
it'd be a good Trojan Horse:

I have to install a UPS agent on every system, with a hard deadline of a 
utility cut in mid-October.  Last time I had a situation like this, I heavily 
hacked my backup agent's installer to detect/handle every variant in my 
mutant horde.

Any reason not to use that project as my Chef beachhead?

--cmd


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