Zack Zondlo double-z

Overview

Here is an example shared configuration for knife. You can drop this off in your chef-repo/.chef/ directory, and multiple developers can use the same knife configuration to interact with more than one Chef server, or the Opscode platform.

By using Bash functions and environment variables we can change the chef server, which knife is configured to use, on the fly.

NOTE: knife will probably ignore your ~/.chef/knife.rb once you begin using a shared knife.rb in your chef-repo directory.

Preparation

Adrian -

I appreciate that you spent time in writing this post. I know I've been up until 2am writing similarly long ones as well. I will take responsibility for having what is likely an irrational response (I blame Twitter for that) to the term "NoOps", but I invite you to investigate why that might be. I'm certainly not the only one who feels this way, apparently, and thus far have decided this issue is easily the largest distraction in my field I've encountered in recent years. I have had the option to simply ignore my opposition to the term, and just let the chips fall where they may with how popular the term "NoOps" may or may not get. I have obviously not taken that option in the past, but I plan to in the future.

You're not an analyst saying "NoOps". Analysts are easy (for me) to ignore, because they're not practitioners. We have expectations of engineering maturity from practitioners in this field of web engineering, especially those we consider leaders. I don't have any expectations from analysts,

Chef git templates

Chef should allow creating cookbooks and chef-repo using templates. It should maintain the ability to create artifacts offline but a special switch could be supplied to knife wich will tell it to clone the remote repository rather than create a hardcoded structure.

Use cases:

knife chef-repo create --template https://github.com/fnichol/chef-bootstrap-repo knife cookbook create ntpd --template https://github.com/test/cookbook-with-minitest-and-berkshelf

Basically knife should clone the repository into folder and remove .git directory.

I just had to set up Jenkins to use GitHub. My notes (to myself, mostly):

Detailed Instructions

For setting up Jenkins to build GitHub projects. This assumes some ability to manage Jenkins, use the command line, set up a utility LDAP account, etc. Please share or improve this Gist as needed.

Install Jenkins Plugins

get both the git and github plugin
http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Plugin

	//npm install b64url
	//A signed_request for testing:
	//WGvK-mUKB_Utg0l8gSPvf6smzacp46977pTtcRx0puE.eyJhbGdvcml0aG0iOiJITUFDLVNIQTI1NiIsImV4cGlyZXMiOjEyOTI4MjEyMDAsImlzc3VlZF9hdCI6MTI5MjgxNDgyMCwib2F1dGhfdG9rZW4iOiIxNTI1NDk2ODQ3NzczMDJ8Mi5ZV2NxV2k2T0k0U0h4Y2JwTWJRaDdBX18uMzYwMC4xMjkyODIxMjAwLTcyMTU5OTQ3NnxQaDRmb2t6S1IyamozQWlxVldqNXp2cTBmeFEiLCJ1c2VyIjp7ImxvY2FsZSI6ImVuX0dCIiwiY291bnRyeSI6ImF1In0sInVzZXJfaWQiOiI3MjE1OTk0NzYifQ

	function parse_signed_request(signed_request, secret) {
	encoded_data = signed_request.split('.',2);
	// decode the data
	sig = encoded_data[0];
	json = base64url.decode(encoded_data[1]);
	data = JSON.parse(json); // ERROR Occurs Here!

	#! /bin/sh
	exec 2>&1

	USER=diaspora
	ENV_DIR=/etc/diaspora/env
	DEPLOY_PATH=/usr/local/share/diaspora
	APP_ROOT=$DEPLOY_PATH/current
	BUNDLE_PATH=$DEPLOY_PATH/shared/bundle

	for env_var in PATH GEM_HOME GEM_PATH; do

	# The BootstrapBreadcrumbsBuilder is a Bootstrap compatible breadcrumb builder.
	# It provides basic functionalities to render a breadcrumb navigation according to Bootstrap's conventions.
	#
	# BootstrapBreadcrumbsBuilder accepts a limited set of options:
	# * separator: what should be displayed as a separator between elements
	#
	# You can use it with the :builder option on render_breadcrumbs:
	# <%= render_breadcrumbs :builder => ::BootstrapBreadcrumbsBuilder, :separator => "»" %>
	#
	# Note: You may need to adjust the autoload_paths in your config/application.rb file for rails to load this class:

	default['nginx']['version'] = "1.2.0"
	default['nginx']['passenger']['version'] = "3.0.12"