emulate fabric/capistrano with puppet or chef

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i have a few remote environments where i can only connect from outside but not from inside to outside. for my deployments/configuration needs i used fabric and capistrano that works fine but I have pressure to use a complete configuration system as puppet or chef.

is there a way i can push specific commands via puppet or chef ? (please keep in mind that the remote hosts can not connect to my site where i would have the puppet/chef server)

thanks

I'm not adding this as an answer because I don't use Chef and I'm not very familiar with it, but a former co-worker of mine told me once that one thing he appreciated on Chef over Puppet was that you could, from the command line, tell it to run a command over a number of machines. From the way he told me, it was with `chef` itself you did it. — Daniel C. Sobral, Aug 16 '11 at 15:13

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 29 '12 at 05:34

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You can use mcollective to run remote commands. You have to install a client on each puppet client though.
Note that mcollective also requires an activemq server.

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answered Aug 15 '11 at 16:57

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does mcollective needs an activemq server (this is what is written into their getting started) ? – silviud Aug 15 '11 at 17:31
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yes you do need one for mcollective to run – Mike Aug 15 '11 at 20:41
it is bundled as part of puppet-enterprise; you can grab a demo with 10 nodes without a needing to purchase a license. – Preflightsiren Feb 23 '13 at 04:46

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '13 at 18:00

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At the risk of reviving an old thread, check out Ansible for running arbitrary commands over a set of hosts. Set up a hosts file with a group named "all" and then type ansible all -a "/bin/echo hello" to see the results.

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 20 '11 at 05:58

Chef has a "deploy" resource that can be used to do a fabric/capistrano style of deployment. It is documented here with examples:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Deploy+Resource

Guides for more sophisticated fully automated setup and deployment can be found on the Opscode knowledge base.

http://help.opscode.com/kb/otherhelp

Django and Rails application deployment examples are used.

emulate fabric/capistrano with puppet or chef

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