Ignasi this is extremely helpful, thank you so much. Lewis On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, Ignasi Barrera <n...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Lewis, > > I would recommend you use the portable abstraction, as it provides the > "runScriptOnNode" methods that will make very easy to run scripts (and > Chef) on the nodes. You don't have to provision the nodes using the > abstraction; the only thing you need to call the runScript methods is > the node id, so you should be able to use it with your current code. > > Back to your questions: > > > 1. Does Chef need to be installed on every single machine? If so, how do > I > > do this? > > No. When you generate the bootstrap script using the methods in the > ChefService as described in the Chef guide, the resulting statement > will already contain the instructions to install Chef if it is not yet > installed on the node. > > > 2. Is it possible to combine JClouds Rackspace orchestration with the > Chef > > Server API? > > Absolutely. Both APIs are independent. The only integration point is > that the ChefService provides a simple helper method to generate a > Statement the ComputeService understands to run all the configured > Chef bootstrap. You can think about it as the "java version of the > knife bootstrap' command". > > > 3. Should I be combining the JClouds compute portable API with the Chef > API > > to bootstrap nodes (as per [2]) instead of using the code I've already > > written? > > I think this is already answered now :) > > > > HTH! > > I. > -- *Lewis*
