Hi folks, If your newish to Chef, and have been looking at design patterns for it, I've posted a blog that might help you out. This will give you the conceptual background necessary to start digging into what Crowbar's doing with Chef, and plans to do with configuration management systems in general.
http://newgoliath.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/orchestration-consistency-and-community-cookbooks The first half is all about writing re-usable cookbooks with clean interfaces. Those are critical to driving them with a tool like Crowbar. The second half of the blog post below goes into the consistency models and orchestration patterns in Chef. I finally starts talking about the attribute injection design issues that Andi brought up earlier this week, here: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/crowbar/2013-March/002811.html That's where we'll be continuing the conversation, and we're eager for you to join in! -judd -- Judd Maltin T: 917-882-1270 F: 501-694-7809 what could possibly go wrong?
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