solid

A Net/SSH library that connects to application servers and executes a dna.json on the server with chef-solo.

Requirements

Ruby
RubyGems
net/ssh

Install

gem install solid

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What is it?

Solid is a command line interface that takes a dna.json file as an argument. It uses this file to establish a ssh connection for each of the application servers specified in the document either by user/key or user/password connections. Then it simply looks for chef-solo, if not available, it installs chef, if available it runs chef-solo, with the dna.json file.

What is a dna.json file?

It is a file that contains instructions for chef on how to setup and configure your servers, and applications. To learn more go to opscode.com

How to use

Create your dna.json file
Make sure it has the following root attributes:
- servers - array of uris or ip addresses
- ssh-auth - (key|pwd) - type ssh authentication
- key - if ssh authentication is key based
- pwd - if ssh authentication is pwd based
Execute

solid dna.json

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.