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The ironfan project is an expressive toolset for constructing scalable, resilient architectures. It works in the cloud, in the data center, and on your laptop, and makes your system diagram visible and inevitable.

Code, documentation and support:

Ironfan consists of the following:

• ironfan-homebase: centralizes the cookbooks, roles and clusters. A solid foundation for any chef user.

• ironfan gem:

  • core models to describe your system diagram with a clean, expressive domain-specific language
  • knife plugins to orchestrate clusters of machines using simple commands like knife cluster launch
  • logic to coordinate truth among chef server and cloud providers.

• ironfan-pantry: Our collection of industrial-strength, cloud-ready recipes for Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Zabbix and more.

• silverware cookbook: coordinate discovery of services ("list all the machines for awesome_webapp, that I might load balance them") and aspects ("list all components that write logs, that I might logrotate them, or that I might monitor the free space on their volumes".

• ironfan-ci: Continuous integration testing of not just your cookbooks but your architecture.

• ironfan wiki: high-level documentation and install instructions

• ironfan issues: bugs, questions and feature requests for any part of the ironfan toolset.

• ironfan gem docs: rdoc docs for ironfan

Please file all issues on ironfan issues.

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