[racket-dev] call for ideas

An addition to my earlier post:

We're shifting to using Chef (opscode.com) for deployment to all our
production servers. Chef works like this:

 - you write recipes, which specify how to install and configure a
particular service (e.g. Racket)
 - for each type of machine you specify the recipes it includes
 - you tell Chef to deploy recipes to machines. It does all the remote
access and fiddling around

Combine this with VMs in the cloud and it makes sys admin *vastly*
easier. You take a base image that consists of Linux distro + chef
client, then run Chef to turn it into whatever type of machine you
want. You can add new machines in < 1 min of user time (though the
install typically takes ~10mins or more you don't need to be around
for that).

Hope that makes sense. I can explain in more detail.

N.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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