[chef] Re: Re: Chef Deployment Strategies

[Sean OMeara < >]

Also new on the scene: https://github.com/opscode/chef-metal

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Noah Kantrowitz < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Feb 27, 2014, at 6:45 AM, "Stewart, Curtis" < "> > wrote:

> Chefs,
>
> I’m curious about some common strategies for deploying entire environments.
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> 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