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What is the most automated way to deploy a new server being managed by Chef?

We use knife-vsphere to deploy and configure new chef-managed servers in our virtual environments, but don't have any one-step solution for physical servers. Currently the process involves imaging a ...
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Why does chef have a two-pass execution flow? [closed]

Chef executes recipes with a two pass model: First it compiles each resource/provider by walking through the run list. Then it converges each of the compiled resource/providers to perform work. ...
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Chef: how to run actions if git deploy has pulled new code?

Most of the time there's nothing new in the git repo that is deployed to a local directory, but if there are any changes, the node.js application should be restarted to start working with the latest ...
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auto updating chef client

I've been exploring chef and one of its features is to auto update a client. I'm hesitant to use this feature in production because I don't want to upgrade a node while it is in use. For major changes ...
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Dynamically loading chef recipies from URLs

I'm deploying a web app on AWS. I intend to use chef to build AMIs which I'll then put into production. I want to have Chef monitor a URL stored in simpleDB. The URL would point to a tarball in S3. ...
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How to organize deployment process in Chef-controlled environment?

I have a web Linux-based infrastructure which consists of 15 virtual machines and over 50 various services. It is fully controlled by Chef. Most of the services are developed internally. Basically ...
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Return from Chef recipe without rising an exception

Is there a way to return from Chef recipe without rising an exception? Say I have a long recipe. I want to add a ruby block to it's beginning which will check some condition (for example directory ...
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Chef-solo cannot locate an nginx recipe template

I have been recently experimenting with Chef. I thought I would attempt to rebuild my personal web server using chef-solo. It's an AWS instance running the Amazon 64bit Linux AMI. My first ...
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Tools helpful for setting up virtual test environment

I'm looking for something similar to vagrant, but working with KVM. I'd like to setup a couple of machines with packages I point at using a single command, but I don't really want to write the whole ...
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emulate fabric/capistrano with puppet or chef

i have a few remote environments where i can only connect from outside but not from inside to outside. for my deployments/configuration needs i used fabric and capistrano that works fine but I have ...
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Puppet or Chef to configure webapplication

I'm looking for a deployment tool for java based webapps deployment to QA/preprod enviroments. Application is typical webapp, compiled to war/ear with .properties file. During deployment ...