[chef] Re: Re: ANN: evil-chef, a gem to use chef as a library

[Mike < >]

Wow. We're really getting all meta(l) up in here.

http://bit.ly/1bZcihG

-M

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Matt Ray < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

This could play well with what John Keiser is working on with Chef Metal.
https://github.com/jkeiser/chef-metal

Chef Metal works with Cheffish to use Chef to deploy Chef resources
and provision machines (in turn managed by Chef). All are very alpha,
John blogged about it here:
http://www.getchef.com/blog/2013/12/20/chef-metal-alpha/

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Cloud Integrations Product Lead :: Chef
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On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Avishai Ish-Shalom
< "> > wrote:
> https://github.com/avishai-ish-shalom/evil-chef
>
> A very small gem that allows using Chef as a library from other
> applications. Currently supports ad-hoc recipes as code blocks and managing
> (running an action on) a single resource.
> Evil chef needs more work but it's already usable. bug reports and feature
> requests are appreciated.
> TODO: pre-configure formatters, easy cookbook loading, cleaning up rough
> spots.
>
> for those interested in abuses, think about running this with drb.... total
> violation of CM principles but cool nevertheless.
>
> released under the Apache V2  license.