Let me clarify something -- I didn't mean brain-wizards sarcastically. I work with some really smart people. -Erik On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Erik Mitchell <erik.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote: > The brain-wizards in architecture at my P.O.E. are using Chef to > create scripts that automate the creation of server instances on > Amazon EC2. > > Basically it's like a build script for setting up a system. You click > go and a server instance is created and configured exactly as you want > it. They're pretty excited about it. > > I haven't had any time to look into it, but I'd like to at some point. > > -Erik > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Dan Burkland wrote: >> >>> Puppet is an interesting beast but it works like a charm once setup. >> >> >> I hadn't heard of Puppet or Chef and I was having a hard time getting a >> description of what they do that wasn't embedded in impenetrable technical >> jargon (e.g., check out Wikipedia's entry for "Puppet (software)"). Then I >> found this article which explained Puppet functionality using ordinary >> language that doesn't expect the reader to have a PhD in Comp Sci: >> >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/automate-system-administration-tasks-puppet >> >> Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > > -- > Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer > erik.mitchell at gmail.com > erik at ekmitchell.com > http://ekmitchell.com/ > -- Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer erik.mitchell at gmail.com erik at ekmitchell.com http://ekmitchell.com/