Cooking Perl with Chef - Grant Report #4
Thu, 02-Aug-2012 by
Alan Haggai Alavi
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*David Golden reported:*
> <h3>Overview</h3>
>
> <p>For those wondering about (the lack) of updates on this grant, I'm pleased to
> be back with some significant progress on the teaching
> deliverables. Some circumstances in my personal life required me to put the grant on
> the back burner during June, but July and OSCON-centered conference-driven development
> have allowed me to rebuild some momentum.</p>
>
> <p>In particular, I have three things to announce:</p>
>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="http://perlchef.com" target="_blank">perlchef.com</a> is now live. This site provides easy access to all the code and teaching deliverables for this grant. Over time, I hope it will continue to grow and provide more resources to the community.</li>
> <li>The three "Hello World" teaching deliverables are now live. The <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/dagolden/cooking-perlwithchefpresentationfinal" target="_blank">Cooking Perl with Chef</a> presentation expands on the material I presented at OSCON. The <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/dagolden/cooking-perl-with-chef-hello-world-tutorial" target="_blank">tutorial</a> and <a href="http://youtu.be/H93rt-KtwBE" target="_blank">screencast</a> show command-by-command how to deploy a simple server.</li>
> <li>The newly created <a href="http://lists.perl.org/list/perl-devops.html" target="_blank">perl-devops@perl.org</a> mailing list is a community forum for discussing deployment tools and practices. If you care about this, please subscribe (and start sharing questions or practices).</li>
> </ul>
>
> <p>Together, I hope these can be a foundation for continuing to improve deployment
> practices beyond the end of this grant.</p>
>
> <h3>Current progress on deliverables</h3>
>
> <p>Six of the eight deliverables are complete and a seventh is substantially complete.</p>
>
> <p><em>Code deliverables</em></p>
>
> <ul>
> <li>Publish a Chef cookbook for Perl interpreter deployment (100%)</li>
> <li>Publish a Chef cookbook for CPAN module deployment (100%)</li>
> <li>Publish a Chef cookbook for Plack application deployment (100%)</li>
> <li>Improve the Pantry command line tool (90% complete; multi-environment support pending)</li>
> </ul>
>
> <p><em>Teaching deliverables</em></p>
>
> <ul>
> <li>Presentation-style introduction to Perl and Chef (100%)</li>
> <li>Document-style "Hello World" tutorial with step-by-step instructions (100%)</li>
> <li>Screencast of "Hello World" tutorial demonstration (100%)</li>
> <li>Document-style "Real World" tutorial with step-by-step instructions (0%)</li>
> </ul>
>
> <h3>Current work and next steps</h3>
>
> <p>Given the June delay, I'm now exploring whether Jitterbug is a better option for
> a real-world demo, where "better" means I can complete the grant quickly while still
> providing useful insights for real world deployment. If so, I'll be adapting and
> extending the existing tutorial to demonstrate this bigger task.</p>
>
> <p>Over the next week, I will also be adding support for deployment environments
> to Pantry, which would complete the remaining code deliverable.</p>
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