Configuration Management with Chef

Logistics

Day: 

Sunday

Room: 

Auditorium

Time: 

Jan 9 2011 - 2:30pm

Config management shouldn't just be for sysadmins. Config management is about tracking your config as part of the app. Many configuration management tools exist - cfengine, bcfg2, Puppet and Chef. Notable Drupal projects are already using these tools. Pantheon uses bcfg2 and Acquia hosting uses Puppet. Far too few developers in the Drupal community use these tools and adoption could provide substantial benefit to many developers. While there is far more to configuration management than can be covered in a single talk, this presentation will focus on what makes Chef different from other config management tools, such as the ability to override cookbooks, using Opscode platform as a chef-server, and the chef-solo tool, which can be used to configure a system in the absence of a chef server. Intended audience: Drupal developers and sysadmins.