Myles Carrick
I'm Myles Carrick, a manager and developer of great things on the web.
I work with online learning systems: Moodle, Mahara, Kaltura and others and love working with Ruby, Rails, JS and other cool goodies.
Mail me at myles@mylescarrick.com
Follow my tweets at @mylescarrick
I work with online learning systems: Moodle, Mahara, Kaltura and others and love working with Ruby, Rails, JS and other cool goodies.
Mail me at myles@mylescarrick.com
Follow my tweets at @mylescarrick
Using Chef to build cloud servers for WordPress and Drupal Commons
So I decided this afternoon that with a wife 39.5 weeks’ pregnant I’d get into devops fun experimenting with Chef.
My goals are simple:
- give me a clear, unambiguous, repeatable way of deploying servers of various types
- help me deploy a bunch of PHP stuff I need right now:
I toyed with the idea of getting someone to do it, but sometimes it’s just easier to do it yourself (read: faster and far less complicated).
Why Chef?
The reasons are fairly simple, and all about me:
- Chef’s all Ruby. I know and love Ruby.
- I can use Opscode’s hosted platform for the servers. The last thing I want to do is run another server or bunch of servers to control my servers - I’m trying to be quick and lightweight here.
Where am I going to deploy?
I’m not entirely sure where this is going to end up. I have some unused Linodes that have to either start getting used or die. Other possibilities are Ninefold and of course AWS/EC2.
Next post: the details…
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