I have been spending my vacation messing around with Opscode #Chef, #Bento, #Packer, #Berkshelf, #Foodcritic, #Vagrant, #Virtualbox and #Veewee. As a beginning Rubyist and being new to Chef, the learning curve is quite steep. While I should be spending my time with my Linux courses from www.linuxacademy.com, I have deadlines to meet with automated builds and configuration management.
Most of what I am creating is for Windows OSes. As there are not really any books written for Chef for windows, I am using what I know from doing all this on Altiris. By doing this, I have cookbooks that will install default configuration for both W2k8r2 and w2012 along with RDS for both. I have put my Citrix Optimization file into a cookbook. I even have cookbooks that will install, but not configure XD7. While these work well, they are primitive based on good development standards.
Thanks to Alex Vinyar from Opscoode for the code to allow pending reboots!!!!
While messing with Berkshelf last night and today, there is a great article by Jamie Winsor (jamie@vialstudios.com), authoring cookbooks that really opened my eyes at the stuff I need to do with my cookbooks and recipes...
That is what I will be doing the rest of my vacation, making my code
less primitive or maybe take a break and study some linux...I might do
both...
I also need to figure out have to configure berkshelf to use my different organizations on Hosted Chef. I assume just berks configure and modify the chef settings along changing the berkshelf location for each repo... more testing to really understand it all...
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