# Trac Cloud plugin - orchestration via pychef, boto

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/trac-cloud-plugin-orchestration-via-pychef-boto/1911>\
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**Created:** [June 8, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/trac-cloud-plugin-orchestration-via-pychef-boto/1911 "2011-06-08T15:11:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rob\_Guttman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@Rob\_Guttman](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Rob_Guttman)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/trac-cloud-plugin-orchestration-via-pychef-boto/1911/1 "2011-06-08T15:11:54Z")

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If you use Trac [http://trac.edgewall.org/](http://trac.edgewall.org/) you may be interested in a  
plugin I wrote that helps orchestrate chef nodes in AWS:

[http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/CloudPlugin](http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/CloudPlugin)

The plugin can be viewed as a UI and coordination wrapper to  
pychef[https://github.com/coderanger/pychef](https://github.com/coderanger/pychef)and  
boto [http://code.google.com/p/boto/](http://code.google.com/p/boto/) (python-based AWS API). I’ve been  
using it for four months now in production and it has enabled us to get to  
push-button deployments (including serial to clustered nodes behind a load  
balancer) amongst other management benefits.

I recognize there’s been some chatter on chef-based orchestration so I look  
forward to seeing how these efforts can evolve together.

Cheers.

- Rob