Hi Folks, To cap this thread off, I sent my pull request to Gora which can be seen here https://github.com/apache/gora/pull/47 Thanks again for the pointers Ignasi. Best Lewis
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > A quick follow up here, I have been working on this code as a side project > and have now got something which is functional and which also updates the > code implementation at > https://jclouds.apache.org/guides/chef/ > I'll try to send a patch to update this code example once I have a full > working implementation. > Best > Lewis > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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* >> >> > > > -- > *Lewis* > -- *Lewis*
