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

[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 Pines folks considered 
using Chef... Maybe they could compare/contrast the two tools.

Justin

On Mon Oct 22 16:16:36 2012, Tara Robertson wrote:
> I'm super energized and excited about a whole bunch of things after
> attending the Access 2012 conference in Montreal. There was an awesome
> session from Graham Stewart, Network and Storage Services Manager,
> from the University of Toronto called Cooking with Chef at the U of T
> Libraries: Automated Deployment of Web Applications in a Library Context.
>
> He demoed Chef and ran a bunch of cookbooks to set up an instance of
> Islandora while he was doing his talk. Here's the notes from his talk:
> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1X-j0tEsm8jhGEGl7mp9BIu0XZZid0x4FX8gVWm9kC5w
>
> His talk got me wondering if it was possible to use Chef to install
> and maintain instances of Evergreen. If someone were to write the
> relevant cookbooks, then could they be reused by other people? I
> suspect there's some things that would need tweaking (but with limited
> knowledge I'm not sure what they would be).
>
> I chatted with Graham during the break. He was excited about the idea
> of doing this with Evergreen and said that he'd be happy to answer any
> questions:
> graham.stewart at utoronto.ca <mailto:graham.stewart at utoronto.ca>
>
> Chris Cormack shared this link Deploying Koha from git with Chef :
> http://halcyoncorsair.tumblr.com/post/31841813338/deploying-koha-from-git-with-chef
>
> Would there be benefits to using Chef? How much of a pain would it be
> to write the requisite cookbooks? Would new cookbooks need to be
> written for each version of Evergreen? For each version of XULrunner,
> Postgres and...?
>
> Cheers,
> Tara