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silviud
Asked: 2011-08-16 08:54:15 +0800 CST

emulate fabric/capistrano with puppet or chef

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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 pressure to use a complete configuration system as puppet or chef.

is there a way i can push specific commands via puppet or chef ? (please keep in mind that the remote hosts can not connect to my site where i would have the puppet/chef server)

thanks

deployment puppet chef capistrano fabric

3 Answers

  1. You can use mcollective to run remote commands. You have to install a client on each puppet client though.
    Note that mcollective also requires an activemq server.

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  2. At the risk of reviving an old thread, check out Ansible for running arbitrary commands over a set of hosts. Set up a hosts file with a group named "all" and then type ansible all -a "/bin/echo hello" to see the results.

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  3. Chef has a "deploy" resource that can be used to do a fabric/capistrano style of deployment. It is documented here with examples:

    http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Deploy+Resource

    Guides for more sophisticated fully automated setup and deployment can be found on the Opscode knowledge base.

    http://help.opscode.com/kb/otherhelp

    Django and Rails application deployment examples are used.

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