The How and Why of Chef with

RightScale

Ryan J. Geyer - @rjgeyer

Sales Engineer

June 13, 2012

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The How of Chef with RightScale

• Getting Chef Code into RightScale

• Chef Bootstrapping

• Delivering Chef Code to Clients

• Executing Chef Code on Clients

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Getting Chef Code into RightScale

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Chef Bootstrapping

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• 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

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Delivering Chef Code to Clients

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Executing Chef Code to Clients

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1. Accepts runlist and inputs from dashboard

2. Instantiates Chef Solo object

3. Loads custom Chef Resources

4. Converges Chef runlist

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Role Support

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Databags/Attributes Support

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Run Lists

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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

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Multi-Cloud Prov. & API Aggregation

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Monitoring

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Automation

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Contextual Knowledge

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Contextual Knowledge

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Contextual Knowledge

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Chef at Scale

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Chef at Scale

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