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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 can find it on github

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

Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Oct 13, 2009
Tags: apache2, chef, opschef, opscode, opscookbook, sysadmin
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Install and run the webalizer with Chef from Opscode

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

As DRY as possible ;-)

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