[chef]

[Ranjib Dey < >]

Hello Chefs,

We are pleased to announce Blender, an opensource modular orchestration engine written in ruby to complement and enhance our automation suite.

Blender allows running tasks/commands using pluggable backends (ssh, serf etc) against fleet of hosts (which can be discovered by chef, serf, zk etc). It also allows concurrency, fine control of execution order, distributed locking (zk) for synchornization etc.

Blender, was grown out of our need to orchestrate and summarize fleet wide workflows (like chef runs, , multi staged bootstrapping, cassandra/zk and other cluster operations/provisioning etc).

Blender github repo:

https://github.com/PagerDuty/blender

cheers

ranjib