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Dissection of a Chef Recipe or two for windows
Working with chef one of the first things I needed to do was get to grips with the semantics of ruby. I did a bit of speed reading, did a few simple ruby programs and I keep a copy of the little book...
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An intro to writing AWS CloudFormation Templates
AWS introduced recently the ability to create & document your AWS environment via CloudFormation. You need to create a JSON template that describes your environment . This template is then used...
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Devops a means to an end
I’ve been following a thread on Twitter where they have been discussing the input from developers in the ‘Devops’ community. It seems that some people felt the Devops initiative is been driven by...
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Managing Chef from Windows 7
Opscode have made significant progress in allowing windows users to use their windows machines to administer chef as it is using a Linux workstation. This is great news for all us chef lovers who...
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Using CloudFormation to kick off a chef run
Once you decide to use CloudFormation to create your AWS resources you are now unable to use the knife command to kick of an ec2 server creation so you will have to get the client to start the chef run...
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Top 10 reasons for having a Configuration management solution
I received a comment on an earlier post asking “what are the possible advantages of chef on windows?” I was originally going to just respond to that question directly but I feel the question opened up...
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Powershell & user data to start a chef run
This script can be used to configure an instance on AWS at startup to collect user data which would be the run list in json . This assumes that ruby and the pre-requisite gems have already been...
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Loosely coupled Chef Cookbooks
I’ve been working on a mongodb installation and configuration cookbook which allows me to install & if required make custom configurations . It allows me to Install and configure a standalone...
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Blathering on
Last night ( 8th Sept 2011) I had the privilege of being interviewed together with my ex colleague and good friend James by Richard & Carl of . NET Rocks! to talk about DevOps, how we see it...
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One tool to manage them all
I’ve been waiting to give the chef-client MSI a try ever since I noticed it had been released. I wanted to see if it really has made the numerous ( albeit fairly straight forward) steps to get...
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