ftclausen / ChefRoleSelect

Provide limited abilities to add roles to servers via a small wrapper API

Purpose

Provide limited abilities to add roles to servers via a small wrapper API

Notes

Java API

http://www.jclouds.org/documentation/quickstart/chef/

example

https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples/blob/master/chef-basics/src/main/java/org/jclouds/examples/chef/basics/MainApp.java

needed to add extra

• copy maven-ant-tasks.jar to lib
• drop in copy of google guava

Configuration File Things

• Chef URL
• Client name
• PEM location
• API Key file list
• Supported roles - In progress

Still To Do

• Actually apply supported role list from property files
• Use proper logging framework

Refactorings

• Actually check for roles/node existence rather than rely on exceptions
• Use EL instead of JSP scripts