Chef Itself
From the Chef website:
Chef is a systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.Chef Links:
- Chef homepage: http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home
- Github repo: http://github.com/opscode/chef/tree/master
Chef and PoolParty
Lets start off with a basic example:
1 chef_repo "basic/chef-repo" 2 recipe "apache2" 3 chef_attributes :apache2 => {:listen_ports => ["80", "8080"]}
You can specify the location for your chef repository. This must be local or an absolute path to the chef repository you are referring to. PoolParty will build the dna.json based on the chef_attributes that you supply as well as the recipes that you use.