Thoughtless Banter
Random musings
Hydration of a Chef Server
At Bloomberg my team is tasked with supporting infrastructure for all of our consumer and subscription web properties. We have been using…Chef to solve some of our problems around configuration management. Most of our recipes were built using Chef Solo and eventually deployed on our cloud infrastructure without a Chef Server. As we began to plan to deploy software services to the teams that we support we quickly began to realize that it would be nearly impossible to manage multiple node deployments without Chef Server. ¶ Requirements ¶ Our immediate need was to provision a Chef Server for our build infrastructure that we would…
John BelloneOct 17, 2014
Keeping cool in the face of disaster
In Washington, during the peak of Hurricane Sandy, my power went out.In Washington, during the peak of Hurricane Sandy, my power went out. The wind outside was howling, the UPS that my MacBook was connected to began to scream, and my Comcast Internet was hosed. We were in the middle of manually failing over our application servers to our New Jersey datacenter, and now I had to continue on my T-mobile tethered cellphone. ¶ Disaster recovery (DR) is serious business.John BelloneSep 18, 2013