<font color="#000000"><font size="4"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Richard,</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></font></div>If you go down the chef-server route, you will indeed end up with less hair, but if you take chef-solo, it gets you there in a heartbeat.<br clear="all"></font></font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">A good boot script is the secret sauce that holds everything together, but once you have that, there's really nothing to it.<br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">If you'll be at LRUG, let's chat, I'm really interested in your GUI project. If chef lacks something, that would be a half-decent GUI and a leaner server component.<br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">Gerhard</font></div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Richard Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@richt.co.uk">richard@richt.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Hi Riccardo,
</div><div><br></div><div>I wrote conman (sorry it's a bit rough round the edges), it was out of frustration for the ridiculous learning curve to get puppet or chef working for small-ish deployments.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've since updated it and written a web-based gui for editing 'ingredients' and 'recipes' but haven't yet released it (I happily use it to manage about 20 servers for different projects) glad to share if you think it would be useful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've also got a ever-growing suite of ingredients to publish that might get you started a bit quicker.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div>
<div><br>-- <br><font color="#888888">Richard Taylor<br><br></font></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<p style="color:#a0a0a0">On Friday, 5 August 2011 at 10:52, Riccardo Tacconi wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div>conman (cool name) is really basic but I will try it and probably that's what I need to manage 3 servers. The problem is that the link to the ingredients is broken. Anyway I can easily create some ingredients by my self.<br>
<br><div>On 2 August 2011 15:59, Kenneth Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenfodder@gmail.com" target="_blank">kenfodder@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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I've been using this little project called "conman"
<a href="https://github.com/moocode/conman" target="_blank">https://github.com/moocode/conman</a><br>
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I know the person who wrote it so it's really just a set of scripts,
we just wanted a way to wrap essentially shell commands and write
ruby all the way.<br>
<br>
It's not really ready for external use, but it might give you some
thoughts of what you are trying to achieve first. We just wanted to
get a server up and running from a clean install with 2-3 commands
to having it fully configured and ready for capistrano deployment in
essentially minutes and rolling our own achieved it. Our goal was to
make idempotent install scripts to get EC2 instances prepped without
making images.<br>
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So my advice is play with both and see which fits best to your
workflow, stick with conventional ways first to learn then ask why.
Have fun.<br>
<br>
Ken<br>
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Hi,<br>
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I remember I attended the Chef and Puppet talk last year (or may
be it was 2009). However I do not have a clear picture of which
I should choose. I have been using Chef from yesterday but I
find it complex and although the site has many documents, I find
myself lost. I saw that Puppet have a new book written by on the
the Lruggers, so I could buy that book and start from one point
and move forward.<br clear="all">
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