[LRUG] puppet or chef [was: availability of talks]

[Viktor Tron]

Hello list,

First of all thanks to Paul and Gareth for this material, great timing for  
me.

I set up a vagrant box (well, a long story in itself :) and started  
playing with provisioning.
After I read this http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-vs-chef, I started  
with puppet.

I need to build a complicated stack including rvm, which already broke me:

since Paul's example is ubuntu specific, the closest generic recipe I  
found was this:
https://github.com/blt04/puppet-rvm, which

- requires puppet > 2.6.7 which is not packaged for ubuntu 11.04
- needs puppet to run twice
- and in general looks quite idiosyncratic to use

After I found this impressive piece of work  
https://github.com/fnichol/chef-rvm
I am considering switching to Chef.

I would love to hear pros and cons (mainly from a rails perspective) in  
particular:

- do you use your provision agent for deployment? which allows for better  
management of rake tasks, cron, db privileges, etc
- if you use public recipes/modules, how do you manage their updates?
- any pointers to good resources for your typical rails stack using  
puppet/chef would be fab

thanks a lot

Vik


On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:10:03 +0100, gareth rushgrove  
<gareth.rushgrove at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 August 2011 10:23, mudge <mudge at mudge.name> wrote:
>> Good morning all,
>>
>> Seems Skills Matter wasted no time and both talks are now available
>> online: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/lrug-puppet and
>> http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/chef-vagrant
>>
>> You can find my slides at
>> http://mudge.github.com/managing_web_application_servers_with_puppet/
>> and a fully worked example of using Vagrant and Puppet at
>> https://github.com/mudge/managing_web_application_servers_with_puppet/tree/master/example
>>
>
> I've also got round to posting my slides:
>
> http://morethanseven.net/2011/08/11/Talking-configuration-management-vagrant-and-chef-at-lrug.html
>
> Any questions as well just shout.
>
> Gareth
>
>> Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions and I hope you
>> find the talk informative.