[chef] Re: Chef Deployment Strategies

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Feb 27, 2014, at 6:45 AM, "Stewart, Curtis" 
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> Chefs,
> 
> I’m curious about some common strategies for deploying entire environments.
> 
> I know of spiceweasle, which can generate knife commands to bootstrap 
> multiple nodes.  That sounds simple enough to create multiple yaml files 
> for various data centers/environments.
> 
> What are other possibilities?  Custom bash scripts?  Other knife plugins?

We (Balanced) have settled on CloudFormation for this. You can check out our 
(WIP) configs at https://github.com/balanced/balanced-infra.

Some other options:
1) chef-metal
2) RightScale
3) Mezos+Aurora
4) CoreOS+Fleet (mentioned for completeness, this is super-pre-alpha)
5) Asgard (only handles some parts)
6) Heat (OpenStack clone of CloudFormation)

Overall the world of resource schedulers is not that great right now. Hope 
that helps.

--Noah

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