[chef] Re: Re: weblogic and chef - quick question

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Hi Peter

Thanks for responding.
What tutorials out there could you share on simple deployments and
auto installations of custom bundled software using chef in different
environments ?

Thanks

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Peter Donald 
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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:59 AM, 
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>  wrote:
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>> We are new to Chef
>> We are still trying to understand the value of Chef.
>> Could the experts share what Chef could do that Weblogic auto deployment
>> mechanism cannot do ?
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> Chef is just an automation tool and you can get it to do what ever you want.
> We don't use Weblogic but instead have opted for GlassFish.
>
> In our environment we have chef setup the os, (ie tweak kernel settings, fix
> up ntp etc), install glassfish, and deploy a range of resources into
> glassfish. Chef actually invokes the underlying  asadmin command line tool
> to interact with the running glassfish server. Some of our applications make
> use of configuration and customizations on the filesystem so we also have
> chef set that up as well. In some cases we also use chef to run database
> migrations, queue migrations and other middleware changes while it pauses
> our ee application. So just recently we could automate the construction of a
> cluster of populated GlassFish VMs to do load testing and it was no more
> effort to create one VM than it was to create 30.
>
> If you never have to install the application server, and never care about
> the underlying OS settings, have no applications that interact with services
> outside WL and are capable of setting up idempotent deployment scripts then
> I wouldn't bother with chef ... but I have never quite been in that
> situation.
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> Cheers,
>
> Peter Donald