[chef] Re: Re: Chef Deployment Strategies

[Darren Dyke < >]

I second motherbrain. We have just started implementing to handle all our deployments. We had looked at metal first, but motherbrain provides the control on the cookbook level that we were looking for.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Gregory Patmore < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

It's hard to answer without knowing any specifics about your env. we run the gamut of envs here from bare metal to aws to ESX 

we've had success using cobbler to pxe boot and bootstrap nodes. there are tons of knife plugins in various states of maturity for all these infrastructure types. 

I've yet to find a 'one size fits all' solution. 

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On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:45 AM, "Stewart, Curtis" < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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?

Curtis