Recent releases of chef from opscode provide a new resource: ruby_block
This is really great news as this allows for interesting problem solving.
Consider you want to do a very special HTTP request. E.g. a GET to localhost but with custom “Host” header...
Install and run the webalizer with Chef from Opscode
http://github.com/ehaselwanter/cookbooks/tree/COOK-195/webalizer
As DRY as possible ;-)
Simply put it derives the log file name from its name and takes a server name for where to access...
Install and run the Sun Glassfish Application Server from Sun with Chef from Opscode
At the moment its really dumb and just installs Glassfish and runs it:
http://github.com/ehaselwanter/cookbooks/tree/COOK-191/glassfish/
There is a new kid on the configuration management block Chef from Opscode. Here is a blog post about Puppet vs. Chef.
Chef is kind of Puppet with integrated iClassify and a rubyish configuration DSL. No wonder, Adam Jacob joined forces on Chef.
You...
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