[chef] Re: Any experiences building on top of Chef?

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Jun 11, 2013, at 5:32 AM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen wrote:

> Ohai,
> 
> I would be interested in hearing how people are building tools on top of 
> Chef. Basically I'm thinking an orchestration layer with simple tasks such 
> as "spin up a new qa environment with latest build", "shutdown all dev 
> environments" etc.
> 
> 
> 
> We have all the low level components done with Chef. And while everything 
> works using e.g. knife commands, it would be nice to shield e.g. QA from 
> having to install chef, clone repo, remember long command lines etc.
> 
> So, are there any good tools for these scenarios? If you've built your own, 
> how did you approach it it? Using knife, the Chef gem or the Chef REST Api?

http://pychef.readthedocs.org/en/latest/fabric.html if you are a fan of ;
Fabric (hint: you should be).

--Noah

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