[chef] RE: knife-whisk 1.0.0 Release Announcement

[James Scott < >]

Added to the community plugins page on the docs site:

http://docs.opscode.com/community_plugin_knife.html

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From: Nic Grayson
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 12:35 PM
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Subject: [chef] knife-whisk 1.0.0 Release Announcement

Hello All,

knife-whisk is a utility for quickly whipping up new servers in a team environment. It's similar in spirit to Spiceweasel, but based on experience we needed something a little bit different.

Chef is a great tool for configuring servers once they're up, but it doesn't address configuration management for initializing cloud servers in the first place. This tool lets your team define named servers and configuration mixins in a file in source control to help your team always create new servers uniformly. Currently, it will generate `knife ec2 server create …` commands based upon the configuration defined in your whisk.yml file. You're free to provide overrides and configuration mixins when generating a new command to spit out a slight alteration of an existing server's config. If anyone would like to extend our work to work with another cloud provider, we will gladly accept your pull requests!

All together, this tool provides us with a "frictionless" experience for understanding how servers are created in our organization and gives us quick access to recreate them correctly during a crisis.

We have a much more detailed README on github with usage examples and installation information.

https://github.com/Banno/knife-whisk

Let us know if you have any questions.

Cheers,

Nic Grayson/Kevin Nuckolls

Technical Operations

Banno