[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Orphaned Cookbooks?

[Peter Norton < >]

My fork is older, and doesn't have this:

https://github.com/infochimps-labs/ironfan-pantry/blob/master/cookbooks/cassandra/recipes/config_from_data_bag.rb

The cassandra.yaml is generated using node[:cassandra] attributes, so you should dump out node[:cassandra] at that point and see what's there.  Drop me an email off-list if I can help you with more specifics, OK?

-Peter

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Maven User < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Peter - can you help me figure out one thing with the same cookbook?

How does chef know which data bag item to use for the server you're deploying to?

For instance - the documentation says you need to create a databag named cassandra and create an item named clusters.  Then in there you can create a hash for each server.

For the life of me, I cant seem to get cassandra.yaml to have the cluster_name I'm specifying.  When the server is provisioned, I can see ohai has the right value.

Any suggestions?

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Peter Norton < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I've got an in-house cassandra cookbook that's been getting some love here.  It's the ben black -> infochimps cookbook, with ironfan stuff removed, and a focus on AWS and using Priam to discover nodes so it works with chef-solo.  I'll look at releasing it sometime in the near future.

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Three Tee < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

+1 to this, especially as tools like berkshelf also encourage users to default to the community site for cookbooks.

On Jan 9, 2013, at 4:58 AM, Cassiano Leal < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Looks good! I'll have a look at this one and maybe switch to using it.

Either way, I think that the community cookbooks should have a better management strategy in terms of cookbook usability.

It's quite daunting for a new user to go around hunting for better cookbooks on github than the ones in the opscode repo. This was a major source of anger and frustration for me when I was starting to learn Chef. :)

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Cassiano Leal

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 10:52, Andrea Campi wrote:

I've been using this one with success: https://github.com/brianbianco/redisio ; every pull request I've sent has been merged in a reasonable time.

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Cassiano Leal < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'll second the redis-angst as I'm going through it myself.

This [0] seems to be the most usable redis cookbook out there, but it hasn't been updated in a while and has to be patched in order to install the latest version of the redis server.

I'm currently using my own fork of it, but by looking through the pull requests it's obvious that there are other people in the same situation.

[0] https://github.com/ctrabold/chef-redis

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Cassiano Leal

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 09:58, Mike wrote:

Hey all,

There's been lackluster response to this.

I currently have this list:

* route53

* cassandra

* node, nodejs, npm - candidates for rollup

* scout_agent

I know there's also some redis-angst out there.

-Mike