Example of using Chef with LibCloud

Chef is commonly used for provisioning servers, right? So is LibCloud, right?

What's an example use case of why someone wo开发者_C百科uld use both tools together?

I use chef to bootstrap ec2 instances. I also use boto to do further modifications of ec2 instances such as creating tags etc. I will be now be using libcloud more often since I will I will have a mix between rackspace and ec2.

As a side, when bootstrap a ec2 or rackspace instance, I do not use knife, I use libcload to boot a machine and ssh into into machine and install chef client since I fond it to be more reliable and even faster then knife by 3-5 minutes.

Net net, both are used together. Its a happy marriage.

Chef works with a variety of cloud computing providers:

• Amazon AWS EC2
• Rackspace Cloud
• Terremark vCloud
• Bluebox Group
• Openstack
• Slicehost

It does this through the Ruby library, fog.