This project aims to make Chef deployments of OpenStack infrastructures easier through the use of fabric and Spiceweasel.

Some stuff about fabric

Spiceweasel is a command-line tool for bootstrapping Chef infrastructures. Rather than run individual commands with knife, Spiceweasel allows you to define a template in YAML or JSON for your infrastructure, which it then converts to the appropriate knife commands.

$ gem install spiceweasel

Edit the spiceweasel.yml file to fit your environment. For most deployments, only the node list will need to be updated. See the Spiceweasel README for more information.

Modify the Chef environment at environments/rpcs.yml to fit the specifics of your deployment.

Now, we're going to run Spiceweasel. This will upload your environments and roles to the Chef Server, as well as bootstrap any nodes which you have defined in the spiceweasel.yml file.

$ spiceweasel spiceweasel.yml | bash