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Session Title: Chef Server In the Cloud

Conveners: Andrea Campi, Kyle Burckhand, Jim Hopp

Participants: Andrea Campi, Kyle Burckhand, Jim Hopp, Dan Prince, KC Brunschweng, Grant Rodgers, Kate Leroux, Scott Mccross, Steve Lum, Brandon Adams, Eric Heydrick, Harley Alaniz, Dragos Manolesca

Summary of discussions:

  • Spinning up Chef nodes with OpenVPN
  • Spinning up new nodes on a cloud platform / autoscaling
  • Zephirworks seems to be only ones running chef-server on a PaaS
  • Continuous Testing of Chef Cookbooks
    • Local development with Vagrant
    • Jenkins fires up a new custer for every commit on master, then runs a set of tests with cucumber
  • Private Repositories for ruby gems, rpms,
    • MANY OF US DO RUN PRIVATE REPOS
  • Autoscaling + Chef: Spins up instances on demand
    • Scalr.com - autoscaling by time, load etc

What will we do now? What needs to happen next?

  1. Automate the Cloud!!!



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