Cooking with Chef

On May 14th, 2009 Tyler Hunt did a presentation on Chef. If you’re tired of running the same commands over and over when setting up your servers, you’ll love Chef. It’s a systems integration framework that allows you to use a Ruby DSL to manage your system configurations, and then easily deploy them across your entire infrastructure, à la Capistrano. Tyler will be breaking down the various components of Chef, and showing some example configurations to get you cooking.

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Duration: 14 minutes

This meeting was sponsored by Engine Yard, which is now offering cloud hosting services. Engine Yard Solo™ is an inexpensive, web-based platform for on-demand management of your Ruby on Rails web application on Amazon AWS. Usage is fully metered beyond a minimum of $25 per month, so you pay for what you use.