Tag Archives: chef

Chef and dbconfig-common: A world of hurt

In constructing a Chef cookbook for managing dspam, I happened upon dbconfig-common, a framework that allows a package to manage database backends somewhat transparently. However, it has no affinity for preseeding. Another approach is necessary for the libdspam7-drv-mysql package.
In the relevant section of the recipe below, the file created to cache relevant database [...]

Managing Systems with Chef: Sandbox Play

Chef is an awesome tool for centralized management of systems and resources. Chef recipes are best consumed in a sandbox, first, before being deployed. Below, I describe a simple sandbox setup using VirtualBox and Debian Lenny.
Using VirtualBox, define a new virtual machine. I used the business card ISO to install a bare [...]