chef

Cfengine vs Chef

What are the differences in term of features between Cfengine and Chef? ...

deploment on EC2 using poolparty and chef server

hi, does anyone have done the rails application deployment on EC2 using poolpary gems and chef server(not chef solo).please share your experiences if you know some blogs or code links(except poolpartyrb.com and related to it). the poolparty script must be able to launch an selected AMI instance with two EBS blocks(data and DB) use one ...

chef-solo example

We are learning chef-solo and need a good example for better understanding.. Have searched a lot on net but the ideas are very confusing. can anyone suggest some examples.. and also how to run them.. We have installed chef-0.8.16 gem but couldnt figure out how to work with it.. We are using windows platform..Its urgent.. ...

Do I have use of Chef if I'm using Heroku?

I use Heroku to deploy my Rails apps. But I thought about learning Chef to automatically set up the development infrastructure, but Im not sure. So to put it very simple, are there any reasons for me to learn Chef? ...

Chef and application deploy

How is it possible to keep my rails application up to date using chef? While reading documentation I understood how to set up servers from scratch using knife bootstrap. But is it possible to run another tasks after this? Earlier I have used capistrano but now we have two staging and ten production servers which needs to be up to date ...

Chef/knife command to update clients after changing role

After I boot up a server using Chef, if I've forgotten to include a recipe in a role (eg apache2::mod_ssl) is there a way to simply update the client without having to delete it and "knife server create" again? Even better, the servers are all registered with my Chef server (Opscode platform), so in theory they should be able to receive...