[chef] Re: Re: Re: application builds/ci involving Chef

[Adam Jacob < >]

I've been embedding the cookbooks/roles/data bags that are directly related to an application in the application repository itself, and using CI to update development environments (or organizations) at build time, then promoting through with asset revisions.

Adam

From: Sascha Bates < "> >
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Date: Saturday, January 26, 2013 10:14 PM
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Cc: Gourav Shah < "> >
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: application builds/ci involving Chef

Thanks. I'm in an environment where we use jenkins and maven for a lot of this at the moment. There's also some Vagrant/vbox in the mix as well as Eclipse/STS. I'm not looking for pointers so much as being interested in what others have found to be successful.

One of the problems I see is that Chef code and Application code are decoupled: different repos, different teams managing collections of cookbooks, diverse environments. Dev teams don't think of Chef as part of the code base and I believe that this has led to some dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors. At the moment I'm noodling on methodology for introducing a tool like Chef that decouples configuration code from application logic. 

So I guess I'm maybe not looking for deployment solutions so much as wondering what people are doing to get their chef and app code working together and how it's working out for them.

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On 1/26/13 9:59 PM, Gourav Shah wrote:

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Is anyone here doing application builds (either yourself or for devs) that involve any of the following:

-Local (workstation) testing of a developed app with Chef housing configuration files

For local development with chef managing configs, you could try using vagrant + chef 

 

-Application bundling with ant, maven, groovy, scripts, whatever that also includes parallel check-ins to Chef code?
-CI testing of an application that builds an artifact but also has configurations in Chef?

I have used Jenkins + chef.  You could also add capistrano in the mix for deployment. 

Thanks

Gourav