Cooking Perl with Chef - Grant Completion Report (Grant Report #5)
Fri, 17-Aug-2012 by
Alan Haggai Alavi
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*David Golden reported:*
> <h3>Cooking Perl with Chef Grant Completion Report</h3>
>
> <p>I am pleased to report the completion of my TPF grant, "Cooking Perl with Chef".</p>
>
> <p>The goal of this grant was to create ready-to-use tools and supporting
> tutorials that teach Perl developers (and the sysadmins that support them) how
> to deploy Perl applications repeatable and reliably using the
> <a href="http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home" target="_blank">Chef</a> configuration management
> tool.</p>
>
> <p>In the section of the original proposal on my motivations for this grant, I
> talked about the "black art" of automated deployment:</p>
>
> <blockquote>
> <p><em>Automated configuration management tools are increasingly part of
> the toolbox for Internet technology companies, but support for
> Perl and Perl application frameworks lags behind other dynamic
> languages. This makes Perl harder to integrate into an
> environment that already uses such tools and makes it harder for
> Perl-oriented companies to adopt such tools.</em></p>
>
> <p><em>While these difficulties can be overcome, deploying Perl applications
> with configuration management tools remains an idiosyncratic black art,
> with the knowledge of how to do it locked up in the minds (or companies)
> that have done it. For someone new to configuration management, the
> learning curve is steep.</em></p>
> </blockquote>
>
> <p>I sincerely hope that the deliverables from this grant can serve
> as a foundation for the Perl community to continue to share tools,
> techniques and practices.</p>
>
> <p>As I mentioned in my last report, there is now a <a href="http://lists.perl.org/list/perl-devops.html" target="_blank">Perl
> Devops</a> mailing list to serve a
> community forum for discussing deployment tools and practices. If you are
> interested, please email <a href="mailto:perl-devops-subscribe@perl.org" target="_blank">perl-devops-subscribe@perl.org</a> and help jump start
> some conversations.</p>
>
> <p>I would like to thank The Perl Foundation (and those who contribute to it)
> for their support of this grant.</p>
>
> <h3>Summary of the deliverables</h3>
>
> <p><em>Code deliverables</em></p>
>
> <ul>
> <li>Publish a <a href="http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/perlbrew" target="_blank">Chef cookbook for Perl interpreter deployment</a></li>
> <li>Publish a <a href="http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/perlbrew" target="_blank">Chef cookbook for CPAN module deployment</a> (included in the previous cookbook)</li>
> <li>Publish a <a href="http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/carton" target="_blank">Chef cookbook for Plack application deployment</a></li>
> <li>Improve the <a href="http://p3rl.org/Pantry" target="_blank">Pantry</a> command line tool</li>
> </ul>
>
> <p>The cookbooks are available via the <a href="http://perlchef.com" target="_blank">Perl Chef</a> website
> and the <a href="http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks" target="_blank">Opscode community cookbook</a> website.
> <a href="http://p3rl.org/Pantry" target="_blank">Pantry</a> is available on CPAN.</p>
>
> <p><em>Teaching deliverables</em></p>
>
> <ul>
> <li>Presentation-style <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/dagolden/cooking-perlwithchefpresentationfinal" target="_blank">Introduction to Perl and Chef</a></li>
> <li>Document-style <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/dagolden/cooking-perl-with-chef-hello-world-tutorial" target="_blank">Hello World tutorial</a> with step-by-step instructions</li>
> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H93rt-KtwBE&feature=g-upl" target="_blank">Hello World tutorial screencast</a> demonstration</li>
> <li>Document-style <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/dagolden/cooking-perl-with-chef-real-world-tutorial-with-jitterbug" target="_blank">Real World tutorial</a> with step-by-step instructions</li>
> </ul>
>
> <p>The teaching deliverables are also linked on <a href="http://perlchef.com" target="_blank">Perl Chef</a>.</p>
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