Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] could Chef be used to install and maintain Evergreen?

2012-11-05 Thread James Fournie
Hi Tara, sorry I somehow missed your reply. Sitka isn't using any of these tools currently. ~James On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Tara Robertson mailto:information.detect...@gmail.com)> wrote: > Thanks James that's a really helpful explanation. Is Sitka using any > of these tools in produc

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] could Chef be used to install and maintain Evergreen?

2012-10-27 Thread Tara Robertson
Thanks James that's a really helpful explanation. Is Sitka using any of these tools in production? Cheers, Tara sent by magic! On 2012-10-27, at 6:42 PM, James Fournie wrote: > I am sure you're not the only one so I hope maybe this will help: > > Puppet and Chef are configuration management sy

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] could Chef be used to install and maintain Evergreen?

2012-10-27 Thread Justin Hopkins
Good on ya James! These are specialized tools that most folks have never heard of. Thanks for clearing it up for anyone who might have been in the dark. Regards, Justin Hopkins Manager, Information Technology MOBIUS Consortium Office c: 573-808-2309 --sent from a mobile device-- On Oct 27, 2012,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] could Chef be used to install and maintain Evergreen?

2012-10-27 Thread James Fournie
I am sure you're not the only one so I hope maybe this will help: Puppet and Chef are configuration management systems, both are written in Ruby. They allow you to define "rules" for setting up/configuring/provisioning a system -- Puppet calls these "modules" whereas Chef calls them "cookbooks".

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] could Chef be used to install and maintain Evergreen?

2012-10-26 Thread Tara Robertson
Thanks James and Justin for replying. I don't get the differences between Puppet, Vagrant and Chef, but I'm OK with that (for now). Cheers, Tara On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM, James Fournie wrote: > Hi Tara, > > I started some cookbooks a long time ago for use with Vagrant > (vagrantup.com) b

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] could Chef be used to install and maintain Evergreen?

2012-10-23 Thread James Fournie
Hi Tara, I started some cookbooks a long time ago for use with Vagrant (vagrantup.com) but haven't updated it in quite a while, and basically since then Vagrant gained support for Puppet so I was pondering rewriting for Puppet. Either way it's definitely possible to have Chef provision an Evergre

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] could Chef be used to install and maintain Evergreen?

2012-10-23 Thread Justin Hopkins
Great question Tara! I've been wanting to investigate Chef for quite a while, but haven't found the time. I'm not sure if you were at the Genesys (sp?) presentation at the last EG conference, but it's a Pines project with the same goal: to automate the deployment an EG cluster. I wonder if the