Crowbar
Crowbar is an Open Source solution to quickly provision new services from bare metal servers. Introduction Project initiated at Dell by Rob Hirschfeld and Greg Althaus It was originally built on top of Chef, Opscode Configuration Management Solution but is currently evolving as an agnostic solution to support other configuration management tools like Puppet. Crowbar includes a Ruby on Rails application to easily customize your environment. Crowbar currently support Ruby 1.9.3 with RVM About Crowbar 2 Crowbar2 is actively developed, the objective is to refactor Crowbar. Objectives: Make it easier, safer, faster and more productive to use simplify use of Chef and eliminate Crowbar requirements in our Opscode Chef recipes multiple versions of the same OS running for upgrades Moving to a database, Chef isn’t any more the primary DB for Crowbar objects. It will improve scalability. Moving to Rails 3 Big disk support (enabling UEFI booting in Sledgehammer, will allow drives above 2 TB) Read-on to get more in-depth details about the roadmap to Crowbar 2. ...