The How and Why of Using Chef with RightScale
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This document discusses how RightScale enables the use of Chef for configuration management and automation. It explains how Chef code can be checked into RightScale repositories, how RightScale's RightLink agent bootstraps nodes and executes Chef runs, and how RightScale provides benefits like multi-cloud provisioning, monitoring, and scaling Chef to large infrastructures. RightScale positions Chef as a solution for not only configuration management but broader automation and management tasks through its additional capabilities.
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The How and Why of Using Chef with RightScale
- 1. The How and Why of Chef with RightScale Ryan J. Geyer - @rjgeyer Sales Engineer June 13, 2012
- 2. 2# The How of Chef with RightScale • Getting Chef Code into RightScale • Chef Bootstrapping • Delivering Chef Code to Clients • Executing Chef Code on Clients Talk with the Experts.
- 3. 3# Getting Chef Code into RightScale SVN GIT URL Repose Talk with the Experts.
- 4. 4# Chef Bootstrapping Talk with the Experts.
- 5. 5# RightLink • Ruby based agent • Runs on Windows or Linux • Sandboxed Ruby (no system Ruby or gem interference) • Chef gems pre-installed • Connects to RightScale over HTTPS & AMQP • AMQP socket remains open for fast message delivery Talk with the Experts.
- 6. 6# Delivering Chef Code to Clients SVN GIT URL Virtual Machine Repose RightLink Talk with the Experts.
- 7. 7# Executing Chef Code to Clients • RightLink 1. Accepts runlist and inputs from dashboard 2. Instantiates Chef Solo object 3. Loads custom Chef Resources 4. Converges Chef runlist Talk with the Experts.
- 8. 8# Role Support Talk with the Experts.
- 9. 9# Databags/Attributes Support Talk with the Experts.
- 10. 10# Run Lists Talk with the Experts.
- 11. 11# The Why of Chef with RightScale • More than Config Management • Multi-Cloud Provisioning & API Aggregation • Monitoring • Automation • Contextual Knowledge • More than just “search” • Chef at Scale • Distributed code delivery via CDN • Distributed backend for metadata/configuration • Execution is pushed to the edges Talk with the Experts.
- 12. 12# Multi-Cloud Prov. & API Aggregation Talk with the Experts.
- 13. 13# Monitoring Talk with the Experts.
- 14. 14# Automation Talk with the Experts.
- 15. 15# Contextual Knowledge Talk with the Experts.
- 16. 16# Contextual Knowledge Talk with the Experts.
- 17. 17# Contextual Knowledge Talk with the Experts.
- 18. 18# Chef at Scale SVN GIT URL Repose Talk with the Experts.
- 19. 19# Chef at Scale SVN GIT URL Repose Repose Repose Repose Talk with the Experts.
- 20. 20# Chef at Scale Repose Repose Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine RightLink RightLink RightLink RightLink Talk with the Experts.
- 21. Questions? Talk with the Experts.