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

[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 Evergreen server, just something that would need to
be explored more.

https://github.com/jamesrf/evergreen-chef


~James Fournie


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Justin Hopkins
<justin at mobiusconsortium.org> wrote:
> 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