October 2009 Archives


published by Edmund Haselwanter on Friday, August 15, 2008

chef from opscode and the power of ruby

Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 14, 2009
Tags: chef, opschef, opscode, opscookbook, sysadmin

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 information.

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webalizer cookbook and definition for chef from opscode

Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 13, 2009
Tags: apache2, chef, opschef, opscode, opscookbook, sysadmin

Install and run the webalizer with Chef from Opscode

http://github.com/ehaselwanter/cookbooks/tree/COOK-195/webalizer

As DRY as possible ;-)

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Simple ping.fm extension for radiant

Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 11, 2009
Tags: ping.fm, radiantcms

I just created a simple Ping.fm extension for RadiantCMS on github: ping.fm extension

With this you can have updates to your site automatically send details to your
Ping.fm account. All you’ll need to do is provide your account information in the Radiant::Config settings.

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Glassfish cookbook for chef from opscode

Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 11, 2009
Tags: chef, Glassfish, java, opschef, opscookbook, Sun

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/